[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX connection problem

[Alastair Johnson]

Curious. /etc/nxserver and its content are owned by nx.root on the FC6 box I 
just checked. That started with earlier versions though, so it may have 
retained earlier correct permissions.

On Friday 19 October 2007, John Medway, Rim Semiconductors wrote:
> I'll have to do another server install to be sure, but as I recall, it's
> actually ownership by root.root, not nx.nx, or nx.root, rather than actual
> permissions issues. And the packages in question are:
>
>          freenx.i386       0.7.0-1.fc6            installed
>          nx.i386           2.1.0-22.fc6           installed
>
> I suppose another fix would have been to add nx to the root group, but that
> seems unsafe to me.
>
> At 11:35 AM 10/19/2007, Alastair Johnson wrote:
> >On Friday 19 October 2007, John Medway, Rim Semiconductors wrote:
> > > It was actually incorrect permissions on a couple of the files in
> > > /etc/nxserver.
> > > I forgot that I had to fix that on the previous machine, too. Whoever's
> > > done the packaging for Fedora seems to have not gotten that right.
> >
> >Which version of Fedora, which files, and what was wrong with the
> >permissions?
> >I've been using the Fedora packages since before they went into the
> > official repos, and since they've always worked without changing
> > permissions for me (multiple machines, recently with x86_64 too). If we
> > can verify the problem we should be able to get it fixed.