[FreeNX-kNX] nxclient and "challengeresponseauthentication no"

* * richardvoigt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 02:34:26 UTC 2006


On 1/26/06, ted creedon wrote:
> "Please ensure that SSHD on localhost accepts password authentication."
> The output from nxsetup seems to specifically disallow this...:
> see below.

> tedc
>
> nxsetup --install --clean --purge
> Removing user nx ...no crontab for nx
> done
> Removing session database ...done
> Removing logfile ...done
> Removing nx home directory ...done
> Removing configuration files ...done
> Setting up /usr/NX/etc ...done
> Generating public/private dsa key pair.
> Your identification has been saved in /usr/NX/etc/users.id_dsa.
> Your public key has been saved in /usr/NX/etc/users.id_dsa.pub.
> The key fingerprint is:
> 65:70:a4:9f:70:83:10:98:77:c9:8c:59:f6:4d:39:df root at nome
> Setting up /usr/NX/var/db ...done
> Setting up /var/log/nxserver.log ...done
> Setting up user nx ...done
> Setting up known_hosts and authorized_keys2 ...Unique key generated;
> your users must install
>
>     /usr/NX/home/nx/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key
>
> on their computers.
> done
> Setting up permissions ...done
> Ok, nxserver is ready.
>
> PAM authentication enabled:
>   All users will be able to login with their normal passwords.
>
>   PAM authentication will be done through SSH.
>   Please ensure that SSHD on localhost accepts password authentication.
>

You saw the line above, did you miss the line below?  freenx can also
use su for authentication instead of ssh.

>   You can change this behaviour in the /usr/NX/etc/node.conf file.



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