[FreeNX-kNX] Re: got: "cannot create directory `/home/.nx'"

[Rick Stout]

Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
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>> Setup Server1 and create client.id_dsa.key and server.id_dsa.pub.key
>> Setup Server2
>> copy server.id_dsa.pub.key from server1 to server2
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> OK. But what if you connect to nx.company1.com and also to 
> nx.company2.org ?
> You are lost...
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>> Its actually the same process that you would use if you have multiple 
>> computers that you want to ssh into. You keep your id_dsa file secret, 
>> but place id_dsa.pub on every computer you want to connect to. SSH 
>> does the rest.
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> No it's very different. You spread the *private* key into clients to let 
> them connect, not the *public* key like in the SSH case.
> The difference is that you have only one account on the UNIX machine 
> while with SSH, each user has its own account, and its own 
> .ssh/authorized_keys.
> No?
> -jec
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No, you are not lost. If you are connecting to multiple companies, you 
can explain that you are security conscious, and you want them to add 
your id_dsa.pub to the authorized_keys2 file.  That file can contain 
*MANY* keys, although after more than say 10 or so, the logons would get 
horrendous.

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