[FreeNX-kNX] problems with freenx on fc5

John H. mistamaila at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 04:20:38 UTC 2006


the other guy did.

in server's ~/nx/.ssh, no authorized_keys file, only authorized_keys2

and it contains a  ssh-dss for root at server

which key should i put in there in addition, or should it somehow do
it automatically?  nxclient by default uses some private key.

On 8/15/06, Yang Zhang <yaaang at .........> wrote:
> On 8/14/06, John H. mistamaila-at-......... |freenx|
> <...> wrote:
> > ssh -i /tmp/foo.key nx at host
> > still prompts for password, despite /tmp/foo.key being the same as
> > server's ~nx./ssh/client.id_dsa.key
>
> Again, what does your server.log say? What does the verbose output from ssh say?

Er, secure.log.

On 8/16/06, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 04:07, John H. wrote:
>
> > i dont have a secure.log
> > what should i set nx_log_level to?
>
> I didn't mention secure.log at all, did I?
>
> I tried to gently lead you to the conclusion that you should also
> check if a user called "nx" is in your $authorized_keys file (on the
> machine you're trying to achieve a key-based passwordless login).
>
> More clear now?
>
>
> > On 8/15/06, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 04:47, John H. wrote:
> > > > ssh -i /tmp/foo.key nx at host
> > > > still prompts for password, despite /tmp/foo.key being the same as
> > > > server's ~nx./ssh/client.id_dsa.key
> > > >
> > > > however, as my user, i can ssh to the server without pword, as i am in
> > > > authorized keys
> > >
> > > OK, let me rephrase this:
> > >
> > >  a)  "as user '$such-and-such' I can ssh to my server without a password,
> > >       because $such-and-such is in "authorized_keys'..."
> > >
> > >  b)  "as user 'nx' I can *not* ssh to my server without a password, hmm...
> > >       ...and I don't know why"
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kurt
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