Homelab Hacker Blog Entry #0x01: XRDP fixes

 So, after installing ubuntu's desktop environment on a server base, I like to install XRDP so that I can easily access my system via RDP (from a windows box, usually, but the mac and ios clients for windows rdp work great too).

sudo apt-get install xrdp

That's it!

Not quite... On Ubuntu 20.10, this results in some annoying popups.

"Authentication is required to create a color managed device"

There is a simple fix! We need to create a file:

 /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/45-allow-colord.pkla

With the following contents:

[Allow Colord all Users]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile;org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile;org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

Boom! Done!