[FreeNX-kNX] Authentication failed.

[Jon Severinsson]

The nx authentification runs over ssh and a shared key is required to even get 
to the "NX login prompt". The issue with "--install-nomachine-key" is that with 
it you will use the *default* nomachine key, while without it you will generate 
your own custom key. With the default nomachine key anyone can download the 
client from www.nomachine.com and use it to connect to your nxserver (they still 
need a user/password ofcourse), while without it you will have to ship the 
public part of your generated key to all machines that is to be able to log in.

You can not get NX to work without any public/private key pair at all, but as it 
never has been any hassle at all for me, I don't se a problem.

I know that the documentation for the project is poor though, so perhaps it is 
just some kind of misunderstanding due to bad documentation.

Regards
- Jonno

Jay Paulson skrev:
> Hi everyone-
> 
> I seem to have a strange problem when trying to connect to my FreeNX
> server at home from work.  I get the following when connecting.
> 
> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 3231
> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> NX> 200 Connected to address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port: 22
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
> 
> What confuses me is that I ran nxsetup --install --clean
> --skip-nomachine-key and it seems to still want to use a stupid key. GR! 
> I've gone on my home machine and removed all of FreeNX and the NX client
> then reinstalled them.  I've also removed all of the NX client on my work
> computer and reinstalled them.  I get the same error.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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