Authorization problem

[mrosing]

I have a machine running Ubuntu 18.04 on both client and server.  The client reports authorization failure and won’t connect.  If I run

$ /usr/NX/bin/nxexec –auth

This happens:
Username:mrosing
Please wait…
Please wait…
Please wait…
ERROR: Internal exception.
28560 28560 08:07:29 918 nxexecPAMCheckCredentials: ERROR!Authentication failed with error 7.

Nothing shows up in any log files (that I’m aware of).   How can I debug this?

Thanks.

[mrosing]

I found a couple of things: https://www.nomachine.com/AR08M00857  and https://www.nomachine.com/DT10O00162.  I’ll see what I can come up with based on this.

[Cato]

Hello mrosing,

The error means that some internal PAM module failure occured. PAM errors are usually written to /var/log/auth.log on Ubuntu host. Please, check if you can find anything useful there. Can you share the output of ‘grep -r “nxexec” /var/log/auth.log’?
You can also try modifying PAM configuration for NX protocol authentication, residing in /etc/pam.d/nx file. If the problem doesn’t occur when SSH protocol is in use, you can try to reuse SSH PAM configuration with NX. You can achieve that by running as root:

cp /etc/pam.d/nx /etc/pam.d/nx.ori

cp /etc/pam.d/sshd /etc/pam.d/nx

Let us know if this solves the issue.

[mrosing]

Our IT guys dug into the pam.d directory and found several configuration problems.  The nx file was definitely one of them:

“It looks like /etc/pam.d/nx was missing some settings to allow nxexec to bypass MFA”  It took a few tries and a reboot, but they got it working.  I’m not exactly sure what they did, but it now works and all is well!  Thanks!

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