[X2Go-Dev] FW: x2go client session kicks user back to the session login screen

[Stefan Baur]

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Liz,

another idea:

Are your regular users part of some central user administration
system, like LDAP, a Microsoft Windows Domain or an Active Directory
(either natively or emulated via SAMBA)?

In other words, are your systems set up in a way that a particular
user account will automatically have permission to log in on several
machines and that changing the password on one machine updates it on
all the others?

- -->"root" is usually exempt from that and a local, per-machine account.

So if your users are centrally administered as described above, the
behavior you are seeing would point to an issue with the
authentication system in use at your site.

While X2Go uses SSH, it uses a different implementation of SSH than
the regular SSH client, so a central authentication system expecting
only a regular SSH connection might get confused.


Please also do follow "rpr"s advice in the previous message and check
if your users have files named ".Xauthority*" in their home
directories that aren't owned by them.

Note that the leading dot in the file name means they are hidden
files, so the best way to check for them is:
ls -lah ~/.Xauthority*
from an SSH session of the user account in question.

Kind Regards,
Stefan
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