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    RDPGW is an implementation of the Remote Desktop Gateway protocol. This allows you to connect with the official Microsoft clients to remote desktops over HTTPS. These desktops could be, for example, XRDP desktops running in containers on Kubernetes.

    AIM

    RDPGW aims to provide a full open source replacement for MS Remote Desktop Gateway, including access policies.

    Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

    RDPGW provides multi factor authentication out of the box with OpenID Connect integration. Thus you can integrate your remote desktops with Keycloak, Okta, Google, Azure, Apple or Facebook if you want.

    Security

    NOTE: rdogw now supports PAM authentication as well if you configure it to use 'local' authentication. Further documentation pending.

    RDPGW wants to be secure when you set it up from the beginning. It does this by having OpenID Connect integration enabled by default. Cookies are encrypted and signed on the client side relying on Gorilla Sessions. PAA tokens (gateway access tokens) are generated and signed according to the JWT spec by using jwt-go signed with a 256 bit HMAC. Hosts provided by the user are verified against what was provided by the server. Finally, the client's ip address needs to match the one it obtained the token with.

    How to build & install

    cd rdpgw
    make
    make install

    Configuration

    By default the configuration is read from rdpgw.yaml. Below is a template.

    # web server configuration. 
    Server:
     # can be set to openid (default) and local. If openid is used rdpgw expects
     # a configured openid provider, make sure to set caps.tokenauth to true. If local
     # rdpgw connects to rdpgw-auth over a socket to verify users and password. Note:
     # rdpgw-auth needs to be run as root or setuid in order to work
     Authentication: openid
     # The socket to connect to if using local auth. Ensure rdpgw auth is configured to
     # use the same socket.
     AuthSocket: /tmp/rdpgw-auth.sock
     # The default option 'auto' uses a certificate file if provided and found otherwise
     # it uses letsencrypt to obtain a certificate, the latter requires that the host is reachable
     # from letsencrypt servers. If TLS termination happens somewhere else (e.g. a load balancer)
     # set this option to 'disable'. This is mutually exclusive with 'authentication: local'
     # Note: rdp connections over a gateway require TLS
     Tls: auto
     # TLS certificate files
     CertFile: server.pem
     KeyFile: key.pem
     # gateway address advertised in the rdp files and browser
     GatewayAddress: localhost
     # port to listen on (change to 80 or equivalent if not using TLS)
     Port: 443
     # list of acceptable desktop hosts to connect to
     Hosts:
      - localhost:3389
      - my-{{ preferred_username }}-host:3389
     # if true the server randomly selects a host to connect to
     # valid options are: 
     #  - roundrobin, which selects a random host from the list (default)
     #  - signed, a listed host specified in the signed query parameter
     #  - unsigned, a listed host specified in the query parameter
     #  - any, insecurely allow any host specified in the query parameter
     HostSelection: roundrobin 
     # a random strings of at least 32 characters to secure cookies on the client
     # make sure to share this across the different pods
     SessionKey: thisisasessionkeyreplacethisjetzt
     SessionEncryptionKey: thisisasessionkeyreplacethisnunu!
      # where to store session details. This can be either file or cookie (default: cookie)
      # if a file store is chosen, it is required to have clients 'keep state' to the rdpgw
      # instance they are connected to.
     SessionStore: cookie
      # tries to set the receive / send buffer of the connections to the client
     # in case of high latency high bandwidth the defaults set by the OS might
     # be to low for a good experience
     # ReceiveBuf: 12582912
     # SendBuf: 12582912 
    # Open ID Connect specific settings
    OpenId:
     ProviderUrl: http://keycloak/auth/realms/test
     ClientId: rdpgw
     ClientSecret: your-secret
    # enabled / disabled capabilities
    Caps:
     SmartCardAuth: false
     TokenAuth: true
     # connection timeout in minutes, 0 is limitless
     IdleTimeout: 10
     EnablePrinter: true
     EnablePort: true
     EnablePnp: true
     EnableDrive: true
     EnableClipboard: true
    Client:
      # this is a go string templated with {{ username }} and {{ token }}
      # the example below uses the ASCII field separator to distinguish
      # between user and token 
      UsernameTemplate: "{{ username }}@bla.com\x1f{{ token }}"
      # rdp file settings see: 
      # https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/rdp-files
      NetworkAutoDetect: 0
      BandwidthAutoDetect: 1
      ConnectionType: 6
      # If true puts splits "user@domain.com" into the user and domain component so that
      # domain gets set in the rdp file and the domain name is stripped from the username
      SplitUserDomain: false
    Security:
      # a random string of 32 characters to secure cookies on the client
      # make sure to share this amongst different pods
      PAATokenSigningKey: thisisasessionkeyreplacethisjetzt
      # PAATokenEncryptionKey: thisisasessionkeyreplacethisjetzt
      # a random string of 32 characters to secure cookies on the client
      UserTokenEncryptionKey: thisisasessionkeyreplacethisjetzt
      # if you want to enable token generation for the user
      # if true the username will be set to a jwt with the username embedded into it
      EnableUserToken: true
      # Verifies if the ip used to connect to download the rdp file equals from where the
      # connection is opened.
      VerifyClientIp: true

    Testing locally

    A convenience docker-compose allows you to test the RDPGW locally. It uses Keycloak and xrdp and exposes it services on port 443. You will need to allow your browser to connect to localhost with and self signed security certificate. For chrome set chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost. The username to login to both Keycloak and xrdp is admin as is the password.

    cd dev/docker
    docker-compose build
    docker-compose up

    Use

    Point your browser to https://your-gateway/connect. After authentication and RDP file will download to your desktop. This file can be opened by one of the remote desktop clients and it will try to connect to the gateway and desktop host behind it.

    Integration

    The gateway exposes an endpoint for the verification of user tokens at https://yourserver/tokeninfo . The query parameter is 'access_token' so you can just do a GET to https://yourserver/tokeninfo?access_token= . It will return 200 OK with the decrypted token.

    In this way you can integrate, for example, it with pam-jwt.

    TODO

    • Integrate Open Policy Agent
    • Integrate GOKRB5
    • Integrate uber-go/zap
    • Research: TLS defragmentation
    • Improve Web Interface