[FreeNX-kNX] authentication failed message

[Roderick Johnstone]

Marcin Bukat wrote:
> 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
> 
>
Marcin

Thanks for your info. Curiously this setup doesnt work for me. Same 
authentication failed message. I wonder whats wrong.

Roderick