New to Fedora and Aurora, use Ubuntu for everything now. I have a Surface Pro (the original no-number one) and in trying distros this was the only one that installed and worked normally.
I want to turn this into a kiosk-like setup for my Home Assistant display. It is inside my house and firewall and I have no children or others I worry about breaking in, please no security criticism.
With a lot of help from Google I have managed to get auto-login running with no password, auto-start on Firefox in kiosk mode, etc.
I also got ssh running with certificates as it doesn’t appear possible to log in with no password via SSH. Certs are fine.
Where I am failing is RDP. I really like the RDP version this uses as it shows the literal screen as shared as opposed to some implementations which just open a separate client/display. It worked fine until I removed the password. It is very handy for debugging (the surface screen is TINY).
It is unclear to me what the authentication is for RDP. It requires you to set up a username. I used the same username and password as the linux ID I set up, and it was working before removal of the password.
When I removed the password it no longer worked. My first fix was setting the RDP username/password to a blank password, but it won’t take it.
So I set up a separate, non-linux username of “rdp” and password “rdp” and tried that – still won’t work (“The token supplied to the function is invalid” using windows RDP).
So I set up a linux account “rdp” with that password and still get the same error, so I doubt that a linux account is related to the RDP user.
When I try I do see this entry in the log:
Feb 26 11:34:02 aurora.leferguson.com xdg-desktop-portal-kde[2211]: xdp-kde-remotedesktop: MegaAuth: Failed to lookup permissions: "No entry for remote-desktop"
This entry only started appearing after removing the password on the (auto) logged in account. Again, the auto-login and physical display is working fine, it is just RDP I can’t get to work.
What am I missing? Any advice welcomed. This is pretty much the final remaining obstacle.
Linwood