[GUACAMOLE-78] Username of anonymous shared connection users is unsightly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.10-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.10-incubating
• Component/s: guacamole, guacamole-auth-jdbc
• Assignee: Mike Jumper
• Reporter: Mike Jumper
• Created: 12/Aug/16 04:20
• Updated: 04/Dec/16 00:29
• Resolved: 14/Aug/16 01:28

Description

The username generated for anonymous users of shared connections by the JDBC auth is a bit ugly, being a UUID:

This definitely works, but bothers me for a few reasons:

1. It's uncomfortable to look at.
2. It has no semantic usefulness - there's no way its presence in the logs will help trace issues to a particular user, as the username is randomly generated.
3. The user is anonymous. They shouldn't have a name.

In my opinion, we should consider adopting a standardized username for anonymous users (empty string perhaps?) which can then be rendered by the interface appropriately.