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

[Joseph]

On 03/19/09 10:51, Paul Hartman wrote:

Yes, I tried it already:

passwd -u nx
passwd: unlocking the user would result in a passwordless account.
You should set password with usermod -p to unlock this user account.
Password changed.

What do you do next?

When I try to run again:
nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge

I get:
...
Setting up /var/log/nxserver.log ...done
Setting up special user "nx" ...passwd: unlocking the user would result in a
passwordless account.
You should set a password with usermod -p to unlock this user account.
Password changed.
done.
...
----> Testing your nxserver connection ...
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Fatal error: Could not connect to NX Server.

Please check your ssh setup:

The following are _examples_ of what you might need to check.

       - Make sure "nx" is one of the AllowUsers in sshd_config.
   (or that the line is outcommented/not there)
       - Make sure "nx" is one of the AllowGroups in sshd_config.
   (or that the line is outcommented/not there)
       - Make sure your sshd allows public key authentication.
       - Make sure your sshd is really running on port 22.
       - Make sure your sshd_config AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config is set
to authorized_keys2.
   (this should be a filename not a pathname+filename)
 - Make sure you allow ssh on localhost, this could come from some
   restriction of:
     -the tcp wrapper. Then add in /etc/hosts.allow: ALL:localhost
     -the iptables. add to it:
        $ iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT
        $ iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT


So at this point I'm back to square one in log/messages I get:
User nx not allowed because account is locked

Oh, try  to give user nx a password on your system. It uses ssh keys
to login, so it doesn't even matter what the password is. Just don't
make it something easily guessed/brute-force like "nx" or "1234" or
else you might have some unwanted guests in your system :)

I did give it a password 
usermod -p something nx

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...

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#Joseph
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