Terminated session reappears after restart

[mtbs29]

I terminated an inactive session from another user (sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –terminate username) and even rebooted the entire machine.  However, nxserver –list still shows a session (with a different session ID than before).  I believe this causing me to not be able to connect to the server with the client (getting a “Waiting for the desktop user to authorize your connection” message).

Another interesting observation:

1) sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –terminate otherusername

2) sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –list

No sessions

3) Try connecting client as my username.  Get “Waiting for the desktop user to authorize your connection” message

4) sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –list

1001    otherusername 127.0.0.1 2294ACAF52F76C4C6CB98DA352FD3837 localhost:4000

 

How do I really, really terminate another session so that it won’t come back?

[mlyn]

Hello,
It looks as nxserver start permanent physical session as ‘otherusername’.

It is a feature which automatically creates session on headless system when using the free NoMachine version or Enterprise Desktop – Are you using either of these? – and it can be changed by keys in the server.cfg (default path /usr/NX/etc/).

When you change something in server.cfg please call command:
/etc/NX/nxserver --restart

to see result.

You can disable it by changing the CreateDisplay key or changing username in the DisplayOwner key.

#
# Enable or disable the automatic creation of an X11 display when no
# X servers are running on this host (e.g. headless machine) to let
# users connect to the desktop. This setting applies to NoMachine
# servers not supporting virtual desktops and permits to have one
# single display.
#
# 1: Enabled. NoMachine will create automatically the new display at
#    server startup. This setting has to be used in conjunction with
#    ‘DisplayOwner’ and ‘DisplayGeometry’.
#
# 0: Disabled. NoMachine will prompt the user for creating the new
#    display. This is the default.
#
#CreateDisplay 0

#
# When ‘CreateDisplay’ is enabled, specify the display owner and let
# NoMachine create the new display without querying the user. If the
# server supports only one concurrent connection, the connecting user
# must be the display owner set in this key.
#
#DisplayOwner “”

#
# When ‘CreateDisplay’ is enabled, specify the resolution of the new
# desktop in the WxH format. Default is 800×600.
#
#DisplayGeometry 800×600

[mtbs29]

Thanks!  I am running the free version.  I had enabled CreateDisplay (and messed with a few other settings) without fully understanding what I was doing.  Switching it back fixed it.

 

[Britgirl]

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