l3-remote-desktop

Authenticate with L3 portal and launch remote desktop session.

Dependencies

• python3
• python3-requests
• python3-yaml
• freerdp
• ccid (Smartcard)
• opensc (Smartcard)
• pcsclite (Smartcard)

Configuration

Configuration is read from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/l3-remote-desktop/l3-remote-desktop.yml. If the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is not set then configuration is read from ~/.config/l3-remote-desktop/l3-remote-desktop.yml. The configuration file can be overridden with the -c or --config argument.

Configuration Options

• username: str: L3 portal username (email address).
• password: str: L3 portal password.
• rsa_pin: str: RSA PIN.
• domain: str: RDP domain (computer name).
• smartcard_pin: str: Smartcard PIN.
• freerdp_version: int: FreeRDP version (defaults to 3).
• freerdp_exec: str: FreeRDP executable (defaults to xfreerdp when freerdp_version is 2 and xfreerdp3 when freerdp_version is 3).
• fullscreen: bool: Launch RDP in fullscreen mode.
• multimonitor: bool: Enable multimonitor mode.
• verbose: bool: Enable verbose output.

Smartcard Configuration

Arch Linux

Install ccid, opensc, and pcsclite.

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S ccid opensc pcsclite

Enable pcscd.socket.

sudo systemctl enable --now pcscd.socket

See Smartcards for more info and troubleshooting.