[FreeNX-kNX] authentication failed message

[Marcin Bukat]

Roderick Johnstone wrote:

> Hi
>
> 1) Is it intended that with the following settings in nxserver I 
> should be able to establish an nx connection to the server without having
> explicitly added users to the nxserver password database with nxserver 
> --adduser and nxserver --passwd commnds, and using the regular login 
> password? I've never been able to get this to work; it gives me 
> "authentication failed for user blah".
>
> ENABLE_PAM_AUTHENTICATION="1"
> ENABLE_USER_DB="0"
> ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="0"
>
> 2) If I set: ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="1" and add the user and 
> password with nxserver --adduser and nxserver --passwd as above then 
> it works fine so I don't think anything is too badly wrong in my setup.
>
> Can anyone advise please whether my expectations in 1) are correct and 
> suggest what debugging I can do to find out whats going wrong.
>
> This is on Fedora Core 2 (both server and client), and using the 
> packages (freenx 0.2.7, nx 1.4.0, nx-client 1.4.0) and instructions 
> from Rick Stout's page at: 
> http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
>
> Thanks
>
> Roderick Johnstone

I'm using FreeNX-0.25 on slackware-10 (which has no PAM at all) and setting
ENABLE_PAM_AUTHENTICATION="1"
ENABLE_USER_DB="1"
ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="0"

works for me as designed (added to internal database users are 
authenticated against system passwords). This supprised me a bit but it 
seems  sshd is used to authenticate users so PAM in name is missleading. 
(or I'am wrong?)

regards
Marcin Bukat