On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:06 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:42 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:27, Craig White wrote:
and by the way...2 things really bother me but since I can't make it work as it is, I'm not changing them...
1 - there is no /etc/nxserver/node.conf #only node.conf.sample
That's normal.
2 - the pub key I listed above apparently is the one distributed with the binary and that would seem to be a security issue
It is only used for the initial connection so the real login and password are sent over an encrypted channel. You can't do anything else with the nx user login - and you could generate new keys if you wanted. But, you should be seeing sshd[18876]: Accepted publickey for nx ... entries in /var/log/secure if the key is working.
clearly I am not getting anything in /var/log/secure (on the server) that says anything about nx user except when the nx user was created the first time I installed freenx/nx
I think you have a problem with the client or key. If I alter the key I don't see any log entry for the failure.
I might be inclined to agree with you but
# diff /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key [root@srv1 nxserver]#
so either key that I copy from the server, the result is the same.
I have spent the entire day on this - and gotten nowhere. I started at my clients system and was so frustrated, I decided to get a fresh start on my server and my workstation and got to the same place nowhere fast.
I find it hard to believe that anyone actually has made it work.
---- also to the point - I have long had a pubkey authentication between the 2 machines for 'root' which has always and still works (permits me to as root@lin-workstation login as root@srv1 without a password).
Craig