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I created a new user, set the password but not able to login via XRDP. The user/password are set correctly because I can ssh into the machine.

The error I'm getting is the same as in this question: xrdp session: Login failed for display 0

I checked /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini and everything looks OK.

TerminalServerUsers=tsusers

TerminalServerAdmins=tsadmins

; When AlwaysGroupCheck=false access will be permitted

; if the group TerminalServerUsers is not defined.

AlwaysGroupCheck=false

I'm able to log in OK using my regular username & password so I'm guessing the AlwaysGroupCheck option works. For good measure I created the tsusers & tsadmins groups and add the new user to them, then restarted the xrdp service but still not able to login.

Host is Windows7, target is Ubuntu 14.04.

I restarted the machine and I noticed that I'm no longer getting the xrdp session: Login failed for display 0 error. I suspect that creating the tsusers group and adding the new user to it, then restarting the xrdp service might've work but I probably did not notice because there was an additional problem with the window manager.

This should work:

#create the user

sudo adduser --home /home/<username>/ <username>

#create the groups

sudo addgroup tsusers

sudo addgroup tsadmins

#Add the new user to the xrdp group

sudo adduser <username> tsusers

#Restart the service

sudo service xrdp restart