[CentOS] freenx

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:07 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:53, Craig White wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > copied them to my workstation and then used the 'import' function in
> > > > nxclient to import the keys and try to connect and always get the
> > > > following detail when I failed to connect...
> > > 
> > > Try pasting the text from /etc/nxserver/client/client.id_dsa.key
> > > into the nxclient key window and saving it instead of using
> > > the import function.
> > ----
> > that actually got me a lot further...I get 'authentication failed for
> > user craig'
> > 
> > So back on the server, I tried...
> > 
> > nxserver --adduser craig
> 
> This shouldn't be necessary.  If you can log in as yourself
> with ssh and a password, nxclient should work.  What is
> supposed to happen is that it logs in first as the 'nx'
> user with ssh and the client key and uses this only
> for an encrypted path to pass the real username and
> password - which should only need to be normal users.
> Installing  the freenx rpm should have created the nx
> user. The rest should happen like you logged into the
> console.
----
I think the user nx is alive and well...

# getent passwd |grep nx
nx:x:102:103::/var/lib/nxserver/home:/usr/bin/nxserver

# ls -al /var/lib/nxserver/home
total 80
drwx------  4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 .
drwx------  4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  304 Jan 23 15:16 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  191 Jan 23 15:16 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  124 Jan 23 15:16 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  383 Jan 23 15:16 .emacs
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  120 Jan 23 15:16 .gtkrc
drwx------  2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 16:11 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x  2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 .xemacs
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  658 Jan 23 15:16 .zshrc

# ls -al /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh
total 48
drwx------  2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 16:11 .
drwx------  4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 ..
-rw-r-----  1 nx root  611 Jan 23 15:16 authorized_keys2
-rw-------  1 nx root  668 Jan 23 15:16 client.id_dsa.key
-rw-r--r--  1 nx root  220 Jan 23 15:16 known_hosts
-rw-------  1 nx root  611 Jan 23 15:16 server.id_dsa.pub.key

# diff /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key \
/etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
# 

exasperation...

Thanks

Craig