{"id":443,"date":"2020-01-01T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vroamam.com\/wordpress\/?p=443"},"modified":"2020-01-01T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:27:11","slug":"rdp-to-kali-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vroamam.com\/wordpress\/blog\/rdp-to-kali-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"RDP to Kali Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I occasionally have to use Kali in an almost entirely windows infrastructure. It is a VM on ESX and using the console through VSphere is, quite frankly, absolute pants. After struggling for a few weeks I looked for an alternate solution and came across several posts that suggested you could RDP to Kali if you first installed XRDP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What wasn’t discussed was the fact that XRDP has a long and unresolved problem with higher resolutions and (possibly) with the Gnome windows manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After struggling for some time, changing the default windows manager from Gnome and trying several different ones, I stumbled across this article<\/a> from Rafe Hart. The steps I followed are repeated below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install XRDP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Update the package lists and packages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo apt update && apt upgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install XRDP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo apt install xrdp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enable the service to start at boot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo systemctl enable xrdp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restart the service <\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo systemctl restart xrdp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

XRDP is now installed and setup to start at boot time. Now we have to deal with the issue of permissions and colour depth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create the the file \/etc\/polkit-1\/rules.d\/02-allow-colord.rules <\/em>and insert the following text as its contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if ((action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device” ||
action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile” ||
action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device” ||
action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile” ||
action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-device” ||
action.id == “org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile”) &&
subject.isInGroup(“vglusers”)) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change the colour depth for your remote RDP client to use a maximum of 16 Bit (High Colour). Images below are from Royal TSX, and Windows RDP <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
RDPv10 for MacOS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
RDP Client for Windows<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Display Setting in RoyalTSX v4<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Post<\/a> – Author Rafe Hart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royal TSX<\/a> – from Royal Apps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RDPv10 Client for MacOS<\/a> – Microsoft Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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