RDP encryption

[octyl]

I'd like to set up RDP 5.2 encryption / authentication for VirtualBox 2.2.4. The manual says that VirtualBox allows you to supply your own server certificate (section 7.4.5), but does not describe what command(s) to use. Can someone point me at where this is documented, or describe how to do it?

Thanks!

[Perryg]

You need to have a certificate server to do this yourself. Google linux certificate server to see the various servers that you can use. They also have install guides.

[octyl]

Thanks for your reply. The thing is, I have the server (and CA) certificate, what I'm not sure about is how to configure the virtual machine to use a particular certificate. I see the modifyvm options for setting the VRDP IP and port, but nothing that specifies a certificate file path. I suspect that a setextradata command is involved, but I have no idea what it would be.

[Perryg]

If you are using Linux and set it to use Linux then VBox will use the PAM authentication method and you can setup the service in there.
I have not done this but Ubuntu has a detailed help section here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSSL
I will make this one of my next projects though and see if I can make all of this come together.
PM me and I will let you know where I am as far as progress, but not before next week.