[FreeNX-kNX] freenx stopped working after update

[Les Mikesell]

Eli Morris wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> We're on the same page. Before I got your message, I checked the  
> nxserver permissions and they were royally screwed up.
> 
> ls -l
> drwx------.  5          492 root       4096 2009-08-17 23:06 nxserver
> 
> I set them to nx:nx and now 'su -l nx -s /bin/bash' works without error.
> 
> I still can not log in with no password from a client though to user  
> nx. I was able to configure another test user to have passwordless  
> login and it worked fine. That's two other accounts that work fine. I  
> checked the sshd_conf file for the permitUsers line and it was  
> commented out. I also tried changing the login shell to bash in /etc/ 
> password for user nx and then tried to login passwordlessly and that  
> did not work.
> 
> Here is the redacted ssh verbose output when I try and log in:
> 
> debug1: Offering public key: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with- 
> mic,password
> debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
> debug3: authmethod_lookup password
> debug3: remaining preferred: ,password
> debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password
> debug1: Next authentication method: password
> nx at XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX password:
> 
> Something about that nx user.... What else to check?

Ssh is very picky about the .ssh directory and authorized_keys file 
being owned by the user and not having rw access for anyone else.

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   Les Mikesell
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