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Is there a way to password protect the rdp session for vms started with vrdp?

I would like to have a semi-headless server and autostart the vms, this I can do with no issue, but I am concerned about having unsecured rdp sessions to the console.

So, how can I authenticate or password protect the VRDP RDP sessions started from the command line (ssh session, init or otherwise) without X?

Thanks, great software! I need to get over this last hurdle and then I am off of VMWare... been a long time coming too!

Read UG sec 7.4.4. Use the External method. Remember that the Headless process runs in the host context so you need to use an account and password that is valid on the host and not on the VM that is running.