[CentOS] freenx [SOLVED]

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 19:34 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 08:25 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:33 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > > > copied the above key (that which was between the ----BEGIN and -----END
> > > > but not including those lines) and pasted into the key section and that
> > > 
> > > why without the --begin-- --end-- lines?  I always copy with'em.
> > -----
> > Yeah - I think I needed them too. I was unsure which is why I posted up
> > about copying the key with/without them. Turned out 'importing' probably
> > would have worked just fine too - have to check on that.
> > ----
> > 
> > > I generate keys using ssh-keygen, and stick them into:
> > > /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2
> > > (or without the '2' depends on sshd server setup)
> > > [in one line] and the entire private key into the client.
> > ----
> > This little nugget combined with what I learned last night was the key
> > and I probably would have stumbled into last night had I had the
> > ----BEGIN & -----END lines.
> > 
> > turns out that install will create
> > 
> > /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2
> > 
> > but sshd on CentOS 4 doesn't look there.
> > 
> > so I merely
> > 
> > cd /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh
> > cp authorized_keys2 authorized_keys
> > chown nx authorized_keys
> > 
> > et voila - login
> > 
> > Thanks for everyone's help
> > 
> > I can't believe that people didn't stumble into this installing freenx
> > on CentOS as it simply cannot work out of the box without doing this or
> > some other change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> 
> OK, I have just done a brand new install of CentOS just to test this
> issue on a blank machine.
> 
> It is a standard server install with no packages from outside the CentOS
> repositories.
> 
> First thing i did after running yum upgrade is this:
> 
> yum install freenx nx
> 
> Then I went to a client and imported the key ... 
> 
> I have what you said ... authorized_keys2
> in /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/ (which is exactly what I would expect).
> 
> connection from the client worked perfectly ... I had zero issues.
> 
> Craig ... please look in your /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file and see if you
> have a:
> 
> Protocol 1
> 
> in there ... because with the standard config, both Protocol 2 and 1 are
> authorized.  What you are describing suggests that only ssl protocol 1
> is enabled on your sshd.
> 
> I can absolutely say that with no modifications to sshd_conf, pam
> authentication, or other changes that nx/freenx works perfectly out of
> the box.
----
thanks for checking...it remains untouched from distribution

# grep Protocol /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#Protocol 2,1

Obviously, I had one issue and it was a real problem identifying it.

Thanks for checking - I'm glad that I got it working before you said
that because I would have really been freaked out.

I can tell you for sure though that I did this on 2 different CentOS 4
installs - and the same solution applied made things work fine. I am
presently doing the ruby thing via nx and I'm pretty happy (especially
once I worked out the stupid 'mouseover' pop-ups that were most painful
via remote terminal).

Craig