CloudFormation Ubuntu RDP using cfn-init

Create a CloudFormation YAML template, named ubuntu-rdp.yaml. In it you will convert the User Data script at, https://github.com/drpventura/ec2-ubuntu-init-scripts/blob/master/ubuntu-rdp.sh (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., to be written using the CloudFormation helper scripts, cfn-init (and cfn-signal) to setup the Ubuntu 16.04 instance to be accessible via Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). NOTE: Do NOT setup cfn-hup (i.e. the extra credit from the homework).

Your User Data section may only contain the following code, all the rest of the configurations must happen in the appropriate config sections.

#!bin/bash -xe apt-get update apt-get -y install python-setuptools easy_install https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/cfn-init -v --stack ${AWS::StackId} --resource EC2Instance --region ${AWS::Region} /usr/local/bin/cfn-signal -e $? --stack ${AWS::StackId} --resource EC2Instance --region ${AWS::Region} 

While you must implement the same functionality as the https://github.com/drpventura/ec2-ubuntu-init-scripts/blob/master/ubuntu-rdp.sh User Data script, the following changes are required. You will have a template parameter for the rdp user and the rdp user's password. Your template will then create that user with the specified password.

Other parameters your template must have:

Parameter for the key pair to be used for SSH logins

CIDR block to limit both SSH and RDP logins from, defaulting to USF's CIDR block.

Your template must create a security group for the instance that allows both SSH and RDP traffic only from the designated CIDR block.

The only item you may omit from https://github.com/drpventura/ec2-ubuntu-init-scripts/blob/master/ubuntu-rdp.sh (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. is the dircolors part.

HINT: you may need to install xrdp as the last package.

The coding from https://github.com/drpventura/ec2-ubuntu-init-scripts/blob/master/ubuntu-rdp.sh is below:

#!/bin/bash
	#
	# ubuntu15-rdp
	#
	#set this to the username of the rdp user you wish
	rdpuser="rdpuser"
	set -e
	set -x
	# Skip prompts
	export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
	# Set timezone
	sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
	# fix color of directory, which in PuTTy ends up as dark blue on
	# black background
	bashrc_append=$(cat <<'EOT'
	d=.dircolors
	test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)"
	EOT
	)
	echo "$bashrc_append" >> /home/ubuntu/.bashrc
	dircolors -p > /home/ubuntu/.dircolors
	sed -i -e 's/DIR 01;.*/DIR 01;36 # directory/' /home/ubuntu/.dircolors
	sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /home/ubuntu/.dircolors
	# Create the remote desktop user
	sudo adduser $rdpuser --disabled-login --gecos ""
	sudo usermod -aG sudo $rdpuser
	motdcontents=$(cat <
	#!/bin/bash
	echo ""
	echo "Set the password of $rdpuser using sudo passwd $rdpuser"
	echo "To fix Tab-completion in XFCE go to Applications->Settings->Window Manager"
	echo " Go to Keyboard tab"
	echo " Clear option for Switch window for same application"
	echo "Delete this reminder using sudo rm /etc/update-motd.d/80-xfce-remind"
	EOT
	)
	echo "$motdcontents" | sudo tee /etc/update-motd.d/80-xfce-remind
	sudo chmod a+x /etc/update-motd.d/80-xfce-remind
	# Upgrade
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get upgrade -y
	# Install packages.
	sudo apt-get install -y xrdp xfce4 xfce4-terminal
	# set X to use xfce
	echo "xfce4-session" | sudo tee /home/$rdpuser/.xsession
	sudo chown $rdpuser:$rdpuser /home/$rdpuser/.xsession
	sudo service xrdp restart