[FreeNX-kNX] ESCALATION: Problem Connecting to FreeNX 1.5 Server

[Clive Eisen]

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Hi there –
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>  
> 
> I really need to get this issue resolved within the next few days or I
> will be forced to abandon my attempts
> 
> to get FreeNX running on our systems. Here is the current situation:
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>  
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> I have upgraded the nx and freenx packages on our server that in turn
> was upgraded from Fedora Core 4
> 
> to Core 5. The versions of nx and freenx respectively that are now
> running are 2.0.0 and 1.5.0-50. The nx
> 
> user account has been added to the wheel group on the server.
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>  
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> I have run the nxserver –adduser and –passwd commands on the server to
> create the user account and
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> its associated password. I also ran the ./nxserver –status command to
> confirm the server is indeed running.
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>  
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> The server in question has had Bastille-Linux installed to harden the
> system against hack attacks.
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>  
> 
> I have downloaded and installed the Windows client version 2.0.0-98 onto
> several of our workstations and have
> 
> gone through the motions of trying to connect to the remote server. The
> connection appears to succeed, but then
> 
> suddenly fails with the following output appearing in the Details screen:
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> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 3672
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> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
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> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
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> NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
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> NX> 200 Connected to address: 132.183.12.206 on port: 22
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> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
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> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
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> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
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>  
Surely this is quite clear - you have the wrong ssh key

Perhaps you had created you own keys ( therefore in both the client and
server) , but with the upgrades they have reverted at the server end to
the 'nx' default keys