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 Craig