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Benjamin Thursday, 9 August 2018, 02:46 AM in response to Sydney 4037
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Re: Question About Hotdesking
Hi there Sydney,

I'm not sure if I get the setup and the desired result; is it like this:
  • One IP112, Hotdesking function key enabled to register an additional user
  • Computer next to it with myPBX launcher or browser version, where the users should be able to switch their registrations, too?
To use myPBX, apart from the license, every user needs a password. This password can be the one used in the domain if you configure Netlogon, and/or the one provided in the pbx user configuration.
An automatic login (SingleSignOn) is not possible as of now (if I'm not mistaken), but as long as the user doesn't log out of the launcher, he or she will be logged in automatically the next time the launcher is started in this users context.


To register the user at the phone (in a hotdesking scenario as additional user) though, up to now you have to use the password configured within the user object in the pbx, or provide a Hardware Id with the flag PBX Pwd, to register using that password.

If you want to faciliate registering a defined user on a phone, say for a scenario, where two or more users working part-time share a phone, then you might find the function key "create registration" useful; there you can define the hardware Id (as Name - do not use the number here!) and password used for the registration (e.g. the aforementioned Id and pbx password), so even in case the user changes the password via myPBX, the registration on the phone will still work. To deactivate (remove) the registration, a "delete registration" function key is defined within the profile of the additional user.

Anyone with access to the phone will be able to switch to the additional user though, so please keep that in mind!


If you want to start with a "blank" phone then I'd proceed like Carlos and JohnnyLNS wrote, and prepare a dummy user in the pbx, let's say "Login" with the display name "please log in".
To minimize the needed licenses, I would prefer not to register multiple phones using their serial number, but the users name and the pbx password e.g. by setting up a Hardware Id "login" and activating the flag "PBX Pwd" next to it.

Now the desired phones need to know that they should use the pbx password for the first registration; this can be achieved e.g. using the update server and preparing a script, that defines the first user registration password and is distributed to these phones:
  • vars create PHONE/USER-PWD/00000 pc pwdhash
The needed password hash can be copied over from the show config part of a phone, where the password has succesfully been entered, so it looks like this:
  • vars create PHONE/USER-PWD/00000 pc 2d59601cbe34558d9bd1789b7d
Now you only have to enter login as name for the registration, and the dummy user should be registered successfully. You might want to define call and diversion filters for this user as well, so when all regular users are logged off, only calls to defined destinations are allowed to prevent fraudulent use.

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