External VRDE Authentication

[codyswanson4]

Hello, everybody!

I am running Virtualbox (using VBoxManage) on a new Ubuntu Server (16.04) instance and I got a VM all set up and running, but I am very confused about authentication using my host system's PAM. I have run the following command

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vboxmanage modifyvm Kali --vrde on --vrdeaddress 192.168.1.10 --vrdeport 6000 --vrdeauthtype external

and I can connect using VNC, but I cannot authenticate. Does anybody have any experience with this topic?

[Perryg]

Start with the manual http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vbox-auth

[Martin]

You want to use VRDE authentication for VNC?

[codyswanson4]

You want to use VRDE authentication for VNC?

I believe so. The virtualbox manual has left me pretty confused, though, so please tell me if I'm incorrectly trying to use something.

[Perryg]

I would say to post the guests log file ( as an attachment ) to settle any confusion, but I assume if you are using VNC you are running the Ubuntu fork which is not supported here. I can tell you that vRDE will work if properly configured, but VNC never will ( with any real authentication ) since that is not vRDE which the official build uses.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.h ... erextpacks