#1153233 xrdp: Remmina session to xrdp server fails unless user xrdp is in ssl-cert group

Package:
xrdp
Source:
xrdp
Description:
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
Submitter:
Morten Kjeldgaard
Date:
2026-11-06 13:29:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1153233#5
Date:
2026-11-06 13:27:27 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I have not been able to connect to my headless server using Remmina since some update
during the last few months. I am not exactly sure when the regression started.

By searching the net I found a solution to the problem: The user xrdp must be a member
of the group ssl-cert, which apparently not was the case on at least two Debian systems and
a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (it's Debian).

This is what I did to fix the problem:

 sudo adduser xrdp ssl-cert
 sudo systemctl restart xrdp

Or perhaps better, reboot, which I had to do with the headless server.

The error message that signals this is the problem, is the following, it appears in
/var/log/xrdp.log, and also in systemctl status xrdp:

 [ERROR] MAC checksum error for non-FIPS PDU

Thank you for your work!