Linux RDP

Hi all,

Most of the time when I need to manage a device remotely, especially Linux based, I prefer using the CLI (SSH if possible).

But a few days ago a friend of mine suggested to use RDP, seeing as most of the offices has windows work stations using RDP instead of VNC will ease the access to a Linux server from work, and after a quick look in Google I found an application named "xrdp" witch does exactly this.

There are 2 ways installing it, first and most simple – use the 'yum install xrdp' command.

Another way is to download and compile it manually, download latest version from http://www.xrdp.org/ . 
in other words :

# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xrdp/xrdp/0.5.0/xrdp-0.5.0.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fxrdp%2Ffiles%2Fxrdp%2F&ts=1328289682&use_mirror=garr
# tar zxvf xrdp-0.5.0.tar.gz
# cd xrdp-0.5.0
# ./configure
# make
# make install clean

In my case I had to edit the file /etc/pam.d/xrdp-sesman 

And add "session sufficient /lib/security/pam_lsass.so" otherwise XVNC used 100% of my CPU.

# echo  session sufficient /lib/security/pam_lsass.so >> /etc/pam.d/xrdp-sesman

That's it

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