[FreeNX-kNX] nxserver constantly fails during authentication on login
Flores Bill-G14385
Bill.Flores at motorola.com
Fri Feb 4 08:15:10 UTC 2005
I'm having the exact same issues as you are. I'm also running Debian and can't get past step 1.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitrije Nikic [mailto:webmaster at dnetzone.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:46 PM
To: freenx-knx at kde.org
Subject: Re: [FreeNX-kNX] nxserver constantly fails during authentication on login
I've tried but failed to get step 1 working... I guess I'll have to wait for a newer version - the debian package might have a bug.
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:33:26 -0500
Jesse Byler <lists.freenx at web19.eml.cc> wrote:
> Dimitrije Nikic wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply, Jesse!
> > Sorry to say though, it didn't work. :(
> > Besides, I want only to use passwords to login - no keys.
> > But even using keys it didn't work for me...
> >
> > If I turn off the use of keys in my sshd config, I get the same
> > error output except the line "Using auth method: publickey".
> >
> > Maybe something to do with the way ssh communicates with nxserver?
>
> There are two levels of authentication going on here. When you enter
> your username and password in the nxclient dialog and click "Login", the
> first thing that happens is nxclient ignores your username and password,
> and instead makes an ssh connection to the server as user nx. This
> first step always uses public key authentication with the key
> /usr/NX/share/client.id_dsa.key (linux; it's in Program Files\NX
> Client\share on Windows), and if it fails, you'll see
>
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
>
> Once the user nx is logged in, authentication of the real user takes
> place using one of a variety of methods. The nxserver can use its own
> built-in user database, or it can use PAM so any normal system user can
> use nx.
>
> But before you worry about stage 2, you have to get stage 1 working
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