FreeNX on FC6 authentication problem

Art Fore art.fore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 12:06:16 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 04:57 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:45 +0800, Art Fore wrote:
> > I have used FreeNX before on Suse with no problem, but with FCi6, I
> > cannot get it to authenticate. I followed the instructions at
> > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/ssh/, but I still get
> > that the client closed session with signal 15 and unauthorized user
> > nx. Also on the client machine, (WinXP) I get Authenticating user nx,
> > then authentication failed. Why should it be trying to authenticate
> > user nx and not my user name? Searched config files for something, but
> > found nothing. 
> ----
> because when you install freenx on server system, an nx user is
> automatically created and a key for that nx user is created
> in /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.pub which is the key that needs to be
> copied to clients and used in clients.
> 
> The startup of nxclient first does an ssh connection as user nx using
> the key (no password) and after the user nx is connected, then the
> actual user connects via the already established ssh connection and the
> users login/password.
> 
> It sounds as if you don't have the nx server properly installed.
> 
> Craig

I done a yum install freenx which was supposed to have installed
everything and had it setup according to the web link above. Maybe I
missed something.

Art




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