Manage clipboard behavior via login script

[sdegler]

I want to modify cut + paste behavior based on the users’ IP address.  Is that possible ?

 

[Britgirl]

Yes, using a combination of groups and profiles. You can block copy and paste in profiles for specific user groups.

All NoMachine Enterprise server products support groups, so you can create your group and then set a redirect based on IP address for that group.

--groupadd(there is also –-groupedit, --grouplist)
`Create a NoMachine group and then add users to the group via the
–useradd command. Use –redirect to set IP or hostname and port
for the NoMachine server where connections run by users belonging
to that group are forwarded.`

Then, using profiles, you can disable features for your newly created groups.

Profiles are available in the following products: Cloud Server and Enterprise Terminal Server. By creating rules on the Cloud Server (any of the Cloud Server range), you can propagate them to server nodes.

See here for example: 4.5. Setting Profiles for the Nodes (Rules Propagation)

https://kb.nomachine.com/DT08T00265#4.5

[sdegler]

I should have said I want to dynamically modify cut and paste for users.   When they go direct, they should have the equivalent of EnableClipboard both, but when they come in from a gateway, I want them to only have EnableClipboard client.

 

[sdegler]

Here’s what we came up with:

1. we have a beforeuserlogin script that edits a template server.cfg and replaces server.cfg.
2.  The script reloads the config after mofifying server.cfg.

!/bin/bash

 

ip=$1

LOG=/tmp/nomachinebeforeloginscript.log

 

if [ “$ip” = “X.Y.Z.A” ]; then     # this is our external gateway

echo sed ‘s/#%EnableClipboard%/EnableClipboard client/’ >> $LOG

sed  ‘s/#%EnableClipboard%/EnableClipboard client/’ < /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg.template > /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg 2>> $LOG

echo “result code of sed is ‘$?'” >> $LOG

else

echo sed ‘s/#%EnableClipboard%/EnableClipboard both/’ >> $LOG

sed ‘s/#%EnableClipboard%/EnableClipboard both/’ < /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg.template > /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg 2>> $LOG

echo “result code of sed is ‘$?'” >> $LOG

fi

/etc/NX/nxserver –configupdate

echo “result code of nxserver is ‘$?'” >> $LOG

exit 0

 

[kroy]

We modified a little your script. It works now as you planned. Just create folder:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/NX/scripts/custom

and place there script, set permissions:

sudo chown nx:nx /usr/NX/scripts/custom/UserScriptBeforeLogin.sh
sudo chmod 755 /usr/NX/scripts/custom/UserScriptBeforeLogin.sh

and uncomment and edit following key in /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg:

UserScriptBeforeLogin "/usr/NX/scripts/custom/UserScriptBeforeLogin.sh"

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