Re: Strange problems... users booted.

Hi Ben,

No firewall on these machines.  They all get their image from the pxes server.  
And there is no firewall of any kind on the pxes server -- and even if there 
was it would block IP addresses -- NOT users.

Any other ideas?


Thanks,

Chris




On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:20 pm, Ben Reuter wrote:
> Sounds like a firewall issue to me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Chris Ditri
> Sent: Friday, 21 November 2003 1:10 AM
> To: pxes-devel
> Subject: [pxes-devel] Strange problems... users booted.
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I am experiencing very strange problems here...
>
> I am using pxesboot for about 20 different clients.  I have it set up for
> remote X sessions.
>
> I have two users right now who, when they try to log in, cause their
> instance
> of X to restart.
>
> I am using KDM instead of XDM, and it has worked great up until very
> recently.
> when these users boot up, they come up just fine, and have KDM waiting for
> them to log in.  As soon as they put in their user name and password and
> hit enter, X crashes and restarts.
>
> The errors it kicks out look like this:
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
> Client 2 rejected from IP X.X.X.X port YYYY
>
>
> the "YYYY" here changes for every line... looks like it is cycling through
> ports indefinitely.
>
> Let me stress that this problem is happening for these two USERS  *NOT*
> their
> machines.  It rejects them no matter what machine I try to log them in on.
> So it is not an xhost issue.
>
> I have tried removing everything from their home directory, I have removed
> anything owned by them in /tmp.  I have tried recreating their users,
> changing the password -- nothing helps.
>
> This is the second time this has happened to me... I never found out what
> is going on here, but I got around it by changing the user's uid and gid. 
> I cannot keep doing this though, as I am afraid that some time in the
> future someone might use these uids and screw something up.
>
> Can someone please tell me what is going on here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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