[GUACAMOLE-667] Enable loading configuration file from other locations than default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: guacd
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrzej Dorobisz
• Created: 26/Nov/18 16:16
• Updated: 27/Nov/18 09:57

Description

Currently, when the guacamole-server daemon starts (src/guacd/daemon.c) the configuration file is loaded (guacd_conf_load() in src/guacd/conf-file.c) but the path to the configuration file is fixed.

This path is read from GUACD_CONF_FILE variable, which is set to "/etc/guacamole/guacd.conf" during ./configure process.

./configure.ac:AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([GUACD_CONF_FILE], ["$guacd_conf"], [The full path to the guacd config file])
./configure:  guacd_conf=/etc/guacamole/guacd.conf

We propose to enable loading of the configuration file from the path provided (on the program startup) by the user.