[FreeNX-kNX] users

[elias humbolt]

Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 20:00 schrieben Sie:
> Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 18:58 schrieb elias humbolt:
> > nomachine NX client
> > freenx NX server
> >
> > For some reason, when I login via NX, my user does not show up when I
> > execute `users` eventhough pam auth occurs.
>
> There is already a FR set up.
>
> Please check:
>
> nxserver --list
>
> while we investigate that.
>
> There is still a problem with using -t with ssh. Else this would be
> possible.
>
> I don't know about using su authentication though. I think this won't work.
>
> Another idea would be to add the nx user to the utmp group so it can make
> new entries into the utmp/wtmp session log.
>
> Perhaps this could be enabled in configuarion and setup in nxsetup. Tell me
> would you think of that.
>
> cu
>
> Fabian
>
> > freenx NX server - latest
>
> Well "latest" would be CVS, but I'm just nitpicking ;-).
OK, latest on kalyxo.org

Well, I can only guess, why it is working with plain ssh and even remote x 
sessions but not with NX, since I got in touch with utmp/wtmp for the first 
time. I thought NX would use ssh respectively pam to authenticate the users. 

So do I understand this right, it is actually ssh that would write to utmp not 
pam and since we use ssh only as a tunnel, it does not write to utmp, since 
it does not consider the user to be logged in and ssh -t might fix that?

Another question:
If nx would write to utmp itself, how would you handle suspended sessions?

Here is the requested nxserver --list

xserver:~#  nxserver --list
NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-02 OS_(GPL)
NX> 127 Sessions list:

Display Username        Remote IP       Session ID
------- --------------- --------------- --------------------------------
1000    stoy_c  IP.IP.IP.IP    041AEB148459D9185A7E861C2852A8D5
1000    hugo    IP.IP.IP.IP  1FE6850EB32C8F05E658C29C7E10648C
NX> 999 Bye

server:~# users
root root

the root users are ssh consoles