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Installed and configured xrdp and I am able to connect from a Windows mstsc.exe but only as root. I found this forum post dealing with the situation where the only user who can log into a machine running xrdp is root: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?32062-Unable-to-login-using-xrdp-and-non-root-username

But

  1. there is no Xwrapper.config in the specified directory on my machine. The commands man Xwrapper.config and man XOrg.wrap do not work.
  2. and when I create this file as he specified and reboot, there is no change.

OS: Fedora 19 (it will NOT be upgraded for the purposes of this question)

How can I allow other users to log in via RDP and disallow remote root logins?

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The sesman.ini config file has entries for allowed users and groups.

look at man sesman.ini for the exact usage of theses keys.

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jc__
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This worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.3:

sed -i 's/allowed_users=console/allowed_users=anybody/g' /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
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Bl00dh0und
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via: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?325427-Xrdp-Only-logs-in-as-root

I used method in this post and it works!

echo "unset SESSION_MANAGER" > ~/.Xclients
echo "unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" >> ~/.Xclients
echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.Xclients
chmod 700 ~/.Xclients
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