Option to disallow admin mode

Submitted by qedv on #1

Dear VirtualHere team, dear Michael,

according to the Changelog, starting with version 5.8.9 admin mode is now the default:

Changed - admin mode is now default in the Client. This means you can kick another user off an in-use device by right clicking on the device and selecting Disconnect from User. Previously you needed to use the -a argument to switch to this mode.

Is it somehow possible to switch back to the non-admin mode? The previous system allowing to kick others manually by specifying the -a switch, but not otherwise was working well.

Thank you very much, best regards from Austria
Andreas

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2025/07/23 - 07:30

#2

After feedback over the past few years it seems its more useful to have this on instead of off by default, and there is an upcoming feature in virtualhere to attach a client to a device from another client. And this kick feature is needed to do the opposite.

You can put AdminMode=0 into c:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\vhui.ini on the client(s) (or corresponding settings file for MacOS/Linux clients) 

https://www.virtualhere.com/client_configuration_faq

You can also just reject any kick request by implementing the onDeviceKick handler on the server side. https://www.virtualhere.com/authorization Then it doesnt matter what setting is in the vhui.ini file. Or you can selectively allow kicking this way too.

Submitted by qedv on Wed, 2025/07/23 - 17:19

#3

Thank you very much for the prompt response, we'll try that😊 Do you maybe have a documentation for the available configuration options in vhui.ini?

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 2025/07/24 - 07:56

#4

There are no docs for the vhui.ini