rdesktop - RDP client in the Centos 7 system

2019-10-05 System @JS

Requirements: user with root privileges or non-root user with sudo privileges.

$ sudo yum update -y
# sudo yum groupinstall "Narzędzia programistyczne"     # for a system with Polish locales
$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
$ sudo yum install openssl-devel -y
$ cd #
$ mkdir source && cd source
$ wget https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/download/v1.8.6/rdesktop-1.8.6.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf rdesktop-1.8.6.tar.gz
$ cd rdesktop-1.8.6/
$ ./configure --disable-credssp --disable-smartcard
$ make
$ sudo make install

To connect to Windows using rdesktop we issue the command according to the formula:

$ rdesktop -u windowsuser windowsipaddress