[FreeNX-kNX] connection to freeNX server with dsa keys ?

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 15:10 schrieb Gian Filippo Pinzari:
> Jon Severinsson wrote:
> > Using FreeNX 0.3 or later you can set login through SU instead of
> > through SSH in the node.conf file. Fist login of the nx user is still
> > done with dsa, but the second login of the user is not done by ssh. It
> > is still done through passwords, but ssh does not have to accept
> > password authentification. You will have to add the nx user to the users
> > (SuSE) or wheel (most other distors) group for su to work though.
>
> When this mechanism is in use, how does FreeNX prevent that a user
> that has taken over the nxserver would become any user in the system,
> even users that are not NX users?

You still need a password for "su - username". Its just that you no longer use 
SSH to login the user with a password, but su.

cu

Fabian
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