Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 Multi User Remote Desktop Server
Fully implemented Multi User xrdp with xorgxrdp and pulseaudio on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04. Copy/Paste and sound is working. Users can re-login in the same session. Xfce4, Firefox are pre installed.
Tags
danielguerra/ubuntu-xrdp:16.04 danielguerra/ubuntu-xrdp:18.04 or latest
Usage
Start the rdp server (WARNING: use the --shm-size 1g or firefox/chrome will crash)
docker run -d --name uxrdp --hostname terminalserver --shm-size 1g -p 3389:3389 -p 2222:22 danielguerra/ubuntu-xrdp
*note if you already use a rdp server on 3389 change -p :3389 -p 2222:22 is for ssh access ( ssh -p 2222 ubuntu@ )
Connect with your remote desktop client to the docker server. Use the Xorg session (leave as it is), user and pass.
Creation of users
To automate the creation of users, supply a file users.list in the /etc directory of the container. The format is as follows:
id username password-hash list-of-supplemental-groups
The provided users.list file will create a sample user with sudo rights
Username: ubuntu Password: ubuntu
To generate the password hash use the following line
openssl passwd -1 'newpassword'
Run the xrdp container with your file
docker run -d -v $PWD/users.list:/etc/users.list
You can change your password in the rdp session in a terminal
passwd
Add new users
No configuration is needed for new users just do
docker exec -ti uxrdp adduser mynewuser
After this the new user can login
Add new services
To make sure all processes are working supervisor is installed. The location for services to start is /etc/supervisor/conf.d
Example: Add mysql as a service
apt-get -yy install mysql-server
echo "[program:mysqld] \
command= /usr/sbin/mysqld \
user=mysql \
autorestart=true \
priority=100" > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mysql.conf
supervisorctl update
Volumes
This image uses two volumes:
/etc/ssh/
holds the sshd host keys and config/home/
holds theubuntu/
default user home directory
When bind-mounting /home/
, make sure it contains a folder ubuntu/
with proper permission, otherwise no login will be possible.
mkdir -p ubuntu
chown 999:999 ubuntu
Installing additional packages during build
The Dockerfile has support for the build argument ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES to install additional packages during build. Either pass it with --build-arg
during docker build
or add it
as args
in your docker-compose.override.yml
and run docker-compose build
.
To run with docker-compose
git clone https://github.com/danielguerra69/ubuntu-xrdp.git
cd ubuntu-xrdp/
vi docker-compose.override.yml # if you want to override any default value
docker-compose up -d