Hi Mike, thanks for the response. Unfortunately this image is: A) Aimed at those with very little Linux knowledge B) Required to be accessible from multiple OSes with minimal client installation. Really I would like to either track down why the consolehelper/PAM authentication does not work over xrdp (My next step is try straight vnc) or find an alternate, yet seamless authentication method. Thanks, Sam On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have created a CentOS 6.5 OpenStack image using kickstart. I have > > noticed that when connecting directly to the Virtual Machine's console > > (think connecting directly to the physical machine) all of the > > system-config, firewall configuration, application update and install GUI > > applications work fine and prompt for root login when executed. Hoever > if > > I connect to the VM using xrdp with a tiger-vncserver backend the apps > > either do not work, or take several minutes to prompt for the root > > password. > > > > Here is a post I made in the forums that has no response: > > > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=45307&sid=865afae345fe831c86661f5f264f9021 > > > > It looks like my problem may be that when I do a ck-list-sessions the > > device/terminal information does not seem to be known: > > Session2: > > unix-user = '500' > > realname = '(null)' > > seat = 'Seat2' > > session-type = '' > > active = FALSE > > x11-display = '' > > x11-display-device = '' > > display-device = '' > > remote-host-name = '' > > is-local = TRUE > > on-since = '2014-03-06T17:23:07.718097Z' > > login-session-id = '4294967295' > > > > > > I have tried disabling selinux, modifying the startwm.sh script included > > with xrdp to launch the session with "ck-launch-session gnome-session". > > > > Neither seem to help. > > > > > > Does anyone have any idea what might be going, or an explanation of how > > authentication works when one of these apps requires root permission? > > Most of the /usr/bin/system-config-* are symlinks to > /usr/bin/consolehelper. > > My recommendation is, instead of trying to get a graphical console, SSH > into the instance. You'll need to know/set a root password, have your SSH > client configured to forward X11 (as well as the sshd on the remote VM), > and be running an Xserver on your local system, but that way, you'll have > the graphical version coming to you, directly. Because it's running via > consolehelper, it will prompt you for the root user's password, and you'll > be off to the races. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just > stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >