[FreeNX-kNX] user root cannot be used as an nx user

[Alastair Johnson]

On Monday 25 June 2007 15:04, Sylviane Molinet wrote:
> Alastair Johnson wrote:
> > On Monday 25 June 2007 14:12, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
> >> Op maandag 25 juni 2007 15:06, schreef Sylviane Molinet:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> could you help me to configure nxserver allowing connection as root ?
> >>> thanks in advance for your suggestion
> >>
> >> This may have to do with the configuration of ssh where you can exclude
> >> root from being able to login through ssh.
> >
> > The client connects as user 'nx' before switching to the user specified,
> > so this shouldn't be the problem.
> >
> > Need more information, like which distro, which versions and how did you
> > do the install? For me using Fedora and 'yum install freenx' root login
> > has always worked by default.
>
> On redhat workstation I've installed 2xterminalserver-1.5.0-61.i586.rpm.

This would be the wrong place to ask then. FreeNX and the 2X Terminal Server 
both use the NX libraries but they are not the same. If you're really lucky 
someone on the list might use both ;-) I don't know whether or not the 2X 
server allows root connections.

> My sshd_config contains
> PermitRootLogin yes. I still have the problem to connect with root from
> a client.

As I said before this shouldn't be needed. Kurt has already said why it's a 
bad idea, and the nomachine client discourages it, but will allow it if you 
must. The 2X client is AFAIK based on the nomachine 1.5.0 client, but may 
prevent rather than discourage root connection for all I know - I've not 
tried it. 

>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> MOLINET S.