How to use key authentications?

[adriano64]

I’ve installed NoMachine 7.2.3 in Windows 10 and I like to activate keys authentication only.

I followed  https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/AR02L00785

but I get an authentication error.

The keys pair was generated in a Linux VM (ssh-keygen  -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096 with a passphrase, when asked for)

Is Public key to be appended to the file c:\program files (x86)\nomachine\etc\keys\host\nx_host_rsa_key.crt ?

files should be something like this?

 

—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–

—–END CERTIFICATE—–

ssh-rsa <publik key string>

When I try connection, it asks for a username and keyphrase. Keyphrase is the one I input generating the key, but username?

I also tried generating keys with puTTYgen and creating a authorized.crt file, but same results.

Thanks

Adriano

[Carin]

Hi Adriano,

“Is Public key to be appended to the file c:\program files (x86)\nomachine\etc\keys\host\nx_host_rsa_key.crt ?”

No,  it should be added to:  <user's home>/.nx/config/authorized.crt

“—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–

—–END CERTIFICATE—–

ssh-rsa <publik key string>”

Here, should be only ssh-rsa <publik key string>

“When I try connection, it asks for a username and keyphrase. Keyphrase is the one I input generating the key, but username?”

When prompted to log in, you should use the username and password of your account on the remote PC (fig.7 here https://www.nomachine.com/getting-started-with-nomachine).

[adriano64]

Hello, thanks for your reply.

<user's home>/.nx/config/authorized.crt seemed a Linux path; I had not seen the .nx directory in the user profile.

I create an authorized crt with the public key but…it doesn’t work yet.

If I set authentication by key, I have no connection. It asks for username and passphrase (and doesn’t work with both my password and the key passphrase); if I set connection with normal username and password it works, but I don’t want that.

 

[adriano64]

It works! The problem was in the generated keys (both Linux and PuTTYgen ). I installed client open ssh in Windows to generate keys pair and now it works.

Thanks for other suggestions.

[Carin]

Hi adriano64,

We are glad the issue is resolved. Thank you for letting us know!

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