[X2go-user] x2goclient as normal user fail

[christoffer at fleten.net]

Quoting "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>:

> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 18:52 +0100, Zbyszek Tokarczyk wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I was hoping to jump from freeNX to x2go remote desktop for my Arch
>> and Ubuntu based machines. But I have some problems connecting to x2go
>> service as normal user.
>>
>> For a test drive I have installed x2goserver-one on Arch based server,
>> and x2goclient on my Arch notebook.
>> The server is working fine as I can ssh to it without any problems. I
>> can even connect to x2goserver when the client is run with root
>> priviliges (sudo x2goclient). Unfortunately running x2goclient and
>> trying to connect to server with my normal priviliges (of course with
>> same session configuration as from root) fails:
>> - main x2goclient window does show connecting status after giving
>> login creditials, and all buttons are greyed out
>> - the remote desktop window does not show up at all
>>
>> On both occasions I'm connectiong with same creditials. I'm not using
>> any userdefined configuration files, so both root and my user share
>> same ssh configuration.
>> On console the only difference is that on root account there is line
>> saying that nxproxy is starting, which is not showing on normal
>> account.
>>
>> If any detailed information is needed, just let me know how to get it
>> and I'm going to send it to You.
>> I really hope that we can solve this strange problem together.
>> _<snip>
> Just a quick thought.  Is there any chance root is using bash and
> regular users are using dash as their shell? I know very little about
> Arch but, until the X2Go Server side scripts specify /bin/bash instead
> of /bin/sh, they will fail on dash shells. Good luck - John
>
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Hello Zbyszek

Are you certain that your user is a member of the x2gousers group?  
perhaps your user also needs to be a member of other groups on Arch  
linux. I belive Arch linux has a wiki on their site

Best regards
Christoffer Krakou