On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:07 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:53, Craig White wrote: > > > > > > > > copied them to my workstation and then used the 'import' function in > > > > nxclient to import the keys and try to connect and always get the > > > > following detail when I failed to connect... > > > > > > Try pasting the text from /etc/nxserver/client/client.id_dsa.key > > > into the nxclient key window and saving it instead of using > > > the import function. > > ---- > > that actually got me a lot further...I get 'authentication failed for > > user craig' > > > > So back on the server, I tried... > > > > nxserver --adduser craig > > This shouldn't be necessary. If you can log in as yourself > with ssh and a password, nxclient should work. What is > supposed to happen is that it logs in first as the 'nx' > user with ssh and the client key and uses this only > for an encrypted path to pass the real username and > password - which should only need to be normal users. > Installing the freenx rpm should have created the nx > user. The rest should happen like you logged into the > console. ---- I think the user nx is alive and well... # getent passwd |grep nx nx:x:102:103::/var/lib/nxserver/home:/usr/bin/nxserver # ls -al /var/lib/nxserver/home total 80 drwx------ 4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 . drwx------ 4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 304 Jan 23 15:16 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 191 Jan 23 15:16 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 124 Jan 23 15:16 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 383 Jan 23 15:16 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 120 Jan 23 15:16 .gtkrc drwx------ 2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 16:11 .ssh drwxr-xr-x 2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 .xemacs -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 658 Jan 23 15:16 .zshrc # ls -al /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh total 48 drwx------ 2 nx root 4096 Jan 23 16:11 . drwx------ 4 nx root 4096 Jan 23 15:16 .. -rw-r----- 1 nx root 611 Jan 23 15:16 authorized_keys2 -rw------- 1 nx root 668 Jan 23 15:16 client.id_dsa.key -rw-r--r-- 1 nx root 220 Jan 23 15:16 known_hosts -rw------- 1 nx root 611 Jan 23 15:16 server.id_dsa.pub.key # diff /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key \ /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key # exasperation... Thanks Craig