never mind... figured it out, signed certificates now work with x2go :D

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 10:12, High Grandmaster Lord Zeronious <
lolkidr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on establishing a connection between an Ubuntu client and
> Centos server with x2go server on it for a connection with signed
> certificates. (My x2go server currently uses asymmetric encryption and
> works as intended but requires manual placement of keys between clients and
> hosts, which is tedious). So I setup a CA and configured signed
> certificates to work with ssh-agent because I see x2go supports ssh-agent.
>
> When I used ssh agent to take in the private key and signed certificate
> (see commands below), I can ssh to the x2go server using the certificate
> and private key via command line, but I can't seem to get x2go application
> to open a display when ticking the (use ssh agent box). I tried to specify
> the private key or certificate in the "Use RSA/DSA key for ssh connection
> box" and private key and certificate together and authentication to the
> server via x2go was not even attempted as the (secure log was empty).
> Signed certificates are a common and very secure method of authentication,
> and x2go needs to support this does it already support it and there is
> something major I might have missed?
>
>
> (To authenticate to x2go server via terminal)
> with ssh agent I do:
> ssh username@ip_address
>
> without ssh agent I do:
> ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-cert.pub -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa username@ip_address
>
>
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