[X2go-dev] Strange authentication requests from x2goserver

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 20:02 +0200, Hoefle Marco wrote:
> Hello,
> I am evaluating the x2go tools as an alternative to vnc (I like
> especially the browser plugins).
> 
> On the server (debian squeeze) I recognized that the x2goserver is
> periodically every 5 seconds doing this:
> 
> srv03-lin:/srv/http/trac/umtsrouter# tail -F -n 10 /var/log/auth.log
> Oct  4 19:47:33 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:47:38 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:47:43 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:47:48 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:47:53 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:47:58 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:48:03 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:48:08 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:48:13 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:48:18 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin
> Oct  4 19:48:23 srv03-lin sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot srv03-lin

the x2goserver init script actually runs a daemon named
x2gocleansessions.  This does run x2gopgwrapper every five seconds.
That's not too intolerable with a single X2go server providing multiple
desktops.  If you are using a 1-to-1 ration of desktops to x2goservers,
that can get a little out of hand and we have put together some patches
that, in some circumstances, can run a centralized x2gocleansessions
daemon/
> 
> "/etc/init.d/x2goserver stop" will stop the authentication requests.
> 
> Any Ideas what can cause this?
> 
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> 
> 
> I have a swiss-german keyboard layout and I have a key mismatch, it
> seem that I always get a german keylayout. Is eventually not every
> keymap implemented?
I'm not sure.  Have you played with the keyboard layout settings in the
Settings tab of the Session Preferences dialog? I do not believe this is
displayed by default in the browser plugin so you may need to click on
Advanced Settings to expose it.

Good luck and welcome to X2Go; it is a great product - John
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