[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX, SSH, and su

Fabian Franz FabianFranz at gmx.de
Sat Jul 23 03:52:15 UTC 2005


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Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 09:07 schrieb Pat Regan:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been using FreeNX for quite a few months now.  The other day
> though, I decided to drop a copy on a machine whose SSH server only
> allows public key authentication.  This did not work out well at all
> until I found the ENABLE_SU_AUTHENTICATION option in node.conf.
>
> I have two questions.  Besides RedHat/Fedora requiring the nx user to be
> in the wheel group, is there any other reason why this is not the default?
>
> Also, are there any plans to allow "real" public key authentication when
> logging into a FreeNX server?

Please look into the FreeNX archives for a hack by me making this possible 
with changes _almost_ just on the client-side.

cu

Fabian
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