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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>SuSE 10, I understand ssh and setting
up keys pretty well</span></font></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m trying to install FreeNX and I can’t get it to work. I
haven’t found any great documentation so I’m wading through the
documentation I’ve found so far. I did a</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>nxsetup –install
–setup-nomachine-key –clean –purge</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I don’t really know what this does but it generated</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Removing user nx ...no crontab for nx</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Removing session database ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Removing logfile ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Removing nx home directory ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Removing configuration files ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up /etc/nxserver ...done</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Generating public/private dsa key pair.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Your identification has been saved in /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Your public key has been saved in /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa.pub.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>The key fingerprint is:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx root@madhatter</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up /var/lib/nxserver/db ...done</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up /var/log/nxserver.log ...done</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up user nx ...shell-init: error retrieving current
directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up known_hosts and authorized_keys2 ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Setting up permissions ...done</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Ok, nxserver is ready.</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>PAM authentication enabled:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> All users will be able to login with their normal passwords.</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> PAM authentication will be done through SSH.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> Please ensure that SSHD on localhost accepts password
authentication.</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> You can change this behaviour in the /etc/nxserver/node.conf
file.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Have Fun!</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Now what? I tried copying /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa to /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key.
I’m not sure if this is correct. When I run the kNX client I get the
error “Connection to NX server could not be established. Connection timed
out.”. Here is my line from /etc/passwd:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>nx:x:114:100::/var/lib/nxserver/home:/usr/bin/nxserver</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks a million.</span></font></p>
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