Why XRDP refuses to start when selinux is in enforcing mode ?

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Issue

  • XRDP refuses to start on a RHEL 7.1 system.
  • XRDP fails to start when selinux is in enforcing mode.
  • When it fails to start below error messages are logged under /var/log/messages
systemd: Starting xrdp session manager...
 systemd: Started xrdp session manager.
 systemd: Starting xrdp daemon...
 systemd: Started xrdp daemon.
 systemd: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman: Permission denied
 systemd: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/xrdp: Permission denied
 systemd: xrdp-sesman.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
 systemd: Unit xrdp-sesman.service entered failed state.
 systemd: xrdp.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
 systemd: Unit xrdp.service entered failed state.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • XRDP

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