NX authentication error

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:20 +1000, L wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Craig White<craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:33 +1000, L wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Craig White<craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:03 +1000, L wrote:
> >> >> I I set up a nxserver at remote PC (F10 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686),
> >> >> followed all steps, shipped key from server to client. tried login
> >> >> from client to sever as
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ssh -i /usr/NX/share/keys/user.id_dsa.key nx at server
> >> >> ssh -l USER1 server
> >> >>
> >> >> all work.
> >> >>
> >> >> when I login via nxclient, after pass steps Connected, download
> >> >> session, it failed with errors:
> >> > ----
> >> > problem is with USER1 account.
> >> >
> >> > nxuser only creates an ssh tunnel. Once that tunnel is created another
> >> > connection for nxsession is started and this user must exist on the
> >> > system and the password must be correct. I am not aware that this user
> >> > can use a public key authentication.
> >> >
> >> > Craig
> >>
> >> thanks for your reply, as you see, USER1 can login via ssh to server.
> >> the pssword for users must be right.
> >>
> >> where should I look for error to fix it?
> > ----
> > I would start with the suggestions given in your own error report...
> >
> > NX> 502 ERROR: Public key authentication failed
> > NX> 502 ERROR: NX server was unable to login as user: USER1
> > NX> 502 ERROR: Please check that the account is enabled to login,
> > NX> 502 ERROR: the user's home directory, the directory ~/.ssh
> > NX> 502 ERROR: and the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 have correct
> > NX> 502 ERROR: permissions setting according to the StrictModes
> > NX> 502 ERROR: of your SSHD configuration.
> >
> > make sure that /home/USER1/.ssh/authorized_keys2 is 600 permissions
> > and /home/USER1/.ssh is 755 but I if I were to guess, USER1 does not
> > have a valid shell
> >
> > Craig
> 
> thanks, after change permissions on them, the error message change to
> 
> Authentication to NX node failed.
> 
> see below
> 
> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 13927
> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
> NX> 200 Connected to address: 202.118.163.85 on port: 22
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.3.0-22 - LFE
> NX> 105 Hello NXCLIENT - Version 3.3.0
> NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 3.3.0
> NX> 105 Set shell_mode: shell
> NX> 105 Set auth_mode: password
> NX> 105 Login
> NX> 101 User: test
> NX> 102 Password: ****
> NX> 103 Welcome to: localhost.localdomain user: test
> NX> 105 Listsession --user="test" --status="suspended\054running"
> --geometry="1280x1024x24+render" --type="unix-application"
> NX> 127 Available sessions:
> 
> Display Type             Session ID                       Options
> Depth Screen         Status      Session Name
> ------- ---------------- -------------------------------- --------
> ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------
> 
> NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: test
> NX> 105 Start session with: --rootless="1" --virtualdesktop="0"
> --application="xterm" --link="adsl" --backingstore="1" --cache="16M"
> --images="64M" --shmem="1" --shpix="1" --strict="0" --composite="1"
> --media="0" --session="neau" --type="unix-application"
> --client="linux" --keyboard="pc105\057us"
> --screeninfo="1280x1024x24+render"
> NX> 596 ERROR: Authentication to NX node failed.
> NX> 280 Exiting on signal: 15
----
OK, now you have changed from USER1 to test

That is OK but what is shell for test?

grep test /etc/passwd

is it /bin/sh or /bin/bash?

Can user 'test' login at the console?

Craig


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