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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi. I’m reposting this hoping
someone can help me. I don’t quite understand how all the key stuff works
under FreeNX? Is there some place that explains all this? Thanks in advance.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> Scott</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><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.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Is this sequence of steps
correct? Is the generated /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa file supposed to be copied
to /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>1) Determine if ssh is running correctly.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ok First thing is if SSHD is up and running
correctly. Can you use ssh to connect to a user account on the
machine? If so, the next place to look maybe at the knx client
itself. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Ssh seems to be fine.
Witness:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>scott@madhatter:~/.ssh$ ssh -l scott
madhatter date<br>
Enter passphrase for key '/people/scott/.ssh/id_dsa':<br>
Tue Nov 22 </span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>07:38:47 PST</span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'> 2005<br>
scott@madhatter:~/.ssh$</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I did have to type the
passphrase for my id_dsa file though. I don’t know how knx handles this.<br>
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color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>2) Determine if CygWin compatiblity is stopping KNX
Client from working.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>There is a defect with the client from NoMachine that
makes it not work correctly if you have another version of Cygwin also
installed on the machine. You may have to upgrade Cygwin to make it work
correctly. If you can go to the bin directory in a Windows command prompt
and run nxssh without errors, it is setup correctly. For my machine it
is: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> "cd C:\Program Files\NX Client for
Windows\bin" then </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>"nxssh"</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Actually, right now
I’m just trying to connect from Linux to Linux. I’m connecting on
the same box using “knx” to connect to madhatter. I’ll try
Windows later. What password do I type into knx? The Linux password or the
passphrase for my id_dsa key?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>3) If both of these work I would recheck the settings
in the kNX configuration to make sure they are correct.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hmm. Where is this file?
When I do an “rpm –ql knx” on my system I get </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>/opt/kde3/bin/knx<br>
/opt/kde3/bin/knx_client<br>
/opt/kde3/lib/kde3/kickermenu_knx.la<br>
/opt/kde3/lib/kde3/kickermenu_knx.so<br>
/opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/knx.desktop<br>
/opt/kde3/share/apps/kicker<br>
/opt/kde3/share/apps/kicker/menuext<br>
/opt/kde3/share/apps/kicker/menuext/knxmenu.desktop<br>
/opt/kde3/share/apps/knx<br>
/opt/kde3/share/apps/knx/knxui.rc<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/16x16<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/knx.png<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/32x32<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps<br>
/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/knx.png<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/en_GB<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/knx.mo<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/fr<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/knx.mo<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/pt<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/knx.mo<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/sv<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/knx.mo<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/ta<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES<br>
/opt/kde3/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/knx.mo<br>
/usr/share/doc/packages/knx<br>
/usr/share/doc/packages/knx/AUTHORS<br>
/usr/share/doc/packages/knx/COPYING<br>
/usr/share/doc/packages/knx/ChangeLog<br>
/usr/share/knx<br>
/usr/share/knx/client.id_dsa.key<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I don’t see a
configuration file there. Also, it is weird that a
“client.id_dsa.key” file is distributed. Aren’t I supposed to
replace that?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Again, thanks a million.</span></font></p>
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