Launch AnyDesk Remote Desktop Remote Access from KeePass

KeePass is a useful tool for administrators in their daily work in system maintenace and administrative tasks. AnyDesk is also often used, other remote maintenance software, such as VNC Viewer for remote desktop remote maintenance, also SSH terminal sessions to server and network devices are required.

This post shows how to build an AnyDesk Remote Desktop session to a computer directly from KeePass.

KeePass enables an external program to be executed out from an item with the transfer of parameters such as host name or address and the user credentials for authentication. To do this, add a new entry in KeePass with choose Add Entry to creates a new target.

In the General tab, the computer name is entered in the Title field. For User name the AnyDesk alias which is usually the computer name (hostname), alternatively the AnyDesk ID can be used. The AnyDesk password is entered in the Password field.

The KeePass URL to pass the parameters to AnyDesk:

cmd://"C:Program Files (x86)AnyDeskAnyDesk.exe" {USERNAME} --with-passwor

After the entry is saved, the AnyDesk Remote Desktop session is started with a double-click in the URL column, or with the key combination Ctrl + V.

AnyDesk Remote Desktop for Linux

AnyDesk Connect to a computer remotely, The remote maintenance program from the German startup company AnyDesk Software GmbH enables remote access to remote computers. A video codec specially developed for this purpose is supposed to ensure fast transmission of the screen. It is also possible to transfer files between the two PCs. AnyDesk relies on the DeskRT video codec, which was specially designed by the developers for the transmission of graphic user interfaces. Above all, AnyDesk wants to set itself apart from competing remote desktop products such as TeamViewer and co. The program leaves a tidy impression, the address book is available with a license subject to charge.

How to install AnyDesk on Windows

The installation of AnyDesk under Windows is self-explanatory, there is a video from AnyDesk to show the setup and change settings.

How to install AnyDesk on Linux

This article describes how to install AnyDesk version 6 on Linux Mint 20 x64bit. The way to install is nearly the same for all popular Linux distributions.

Download the small AnyDesk file of 3 MB and finish urgent tasks on the go with AnyDesk’s user-friendly interface. AnyDesk are installable for Linux using the debian package manager, it’s goes quick and easy with open a terminal to insert the following lines and run it.

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ curl -O https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb

If there are errors due to dependency problems, additional packages must be installed afterwards.

package anydesk that was previously not selected is selected.
(Read Database ... 328284 Files in Folder are now installed.)
Preparing to unzip anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Failed to stop anydesk.service: Unit anydesk.service not loaded.
Unpacking from anydesk (6.1.1-1) ...
dpkg: Dependency problems prevent configuration of anydesk:
 anydesk depends on libgtkglext1; or:
  Packet libgtkglext1 not installed.
 anydesk depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); or
  Packet libpango1.0-0 not installed.

dpkg: error processing package anydesk (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
anydesk

The apt-get option -fix tries to provide the packages required for AnyDesk.

$ sudo apt-get install -f

The AnyDesk installation can then take place.

$ sudo dpkg -i anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb

Let’s start AnyDesk also with automatic system start.

$ systemctl start anydesk.service
$ systemctl enable anydesk.service

Installation on Fedora and Red Hat distributions goes with yum.

$ sudo yum install anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.rpm

The installation using yum ends with the following output in the last lines.

Installed:
   anydesk-6.1.1-1.x86_64             gtkglext-libs-1.2.0-34.fc30.x86_64             pangox-compat-0.0.2-14.fc30.x86_64            
 Finish.

As AnyDesk announced on July 15, 2019, the binaries in the current AnyDesk version are now in the repositories for the Linux distributions Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or other Debian-compatible Linux distributions, open a terminal and switch to root and run the following commands to install the latest version of AnyDesk:

wget -qO - https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/DEB-GPG-KEY | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk-stable.list
apt update
apt install anydesk

If you use RHEL, CentOS, Fedora or OpenSUSE, open a terminal become root and copy paste one of the following section suitable for your linux distribution to add the repository. Then simply install the latest version of AnyDesk with a yum or dnf command:

# for RHEL
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/AnyDesk-RHEL.repo << "EOF"
[anydesk]
name=AnyDesk RHEL - stable
baseurl=http://rpm.anydesk.com/rhel/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY
EOF

# for CentOS
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/AnyDesk-CentOS.repo << "EOF"
[anydesk]
name=AnyDesk CentOS - stable
baseurl=http://rpm.anydesk.com/centos/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY
EOF

# for Fedora
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/AnyDesk-Fedora.repo << "EOF" 
[anydesk]
name=AnyDesk Fedora - stable
baseurl=http://rpm.anydesk.com/fedora/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY
EOF

# for OpenSUSE
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/AnyDesk-OpenSUSE.repo << "EOF" 
[anydesk]
name=AnyDesk OpenSUSE - stable
baseurl=http://rpm.anydesk.com/opensuse/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY
EOF

On CentOS run yum install anydesk, on Fedora use dnf install anydesk to install the anydesk remote desktop software.