Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - user nx not allowed because account is locked

[Joseph]

On 03/19/09 11:29, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>> it accepted the password, now do I run the setup again:
>>> nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge
>>>
>>> If I try to login from another machine do I login as user "nx"?
>>> When I try to login from another machine on my network I get:
>>> Your guest account has expired...
>>
>> The way NX works is it uses the nx user as an intermediate. You need
>> to login as a normal user, and you need to explicitly give that user
>> permission to use NX by doing nxserver --useradd yourname (which will
>> generate NX ssh keys and put them in that user's directory).
>>
>> If you use interactive/PAM authentication on your system, NX can use
>> your user's normal system password; if you use key-based
>> authentication for SSH the only way to make NX work is to use its
>> internal password database and assing an NX-specific password to that
>> user. In nxclient, copy the normal SSH key, and then in the nxclient
>> login box put the NX username and password.
>>
>
>I think the user DB setting is in /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg

No there is no such file or directory on the server; that is why I'm asking if after setting the password for user "nx" I should run this command again:
nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge

as it is my impression that the setup was not complete.

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#Joseph
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