On Sunday 12 January 2025 10:41:23 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Thank you, that gave me the hint I needed for the first step ... I use > an ssh option for nixos that's not need for gentoo: /"-o > PreferredAuthentications=password"/
You can use a user password to login over SSH or public key. It is a matter of configuring the sshd accordingly and using either method from the client. > But now I've got a new problem (or problems) that might be gentoo-related: > > /Warning: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not defined > and '/run/user/1010' does not exist > using '/tmp' > server socket for display :2 not found I don't know anything about xpra, but the error points to a user account not being available/configured correctly? Have you tried connecting locally on the server with no user (you'll be already logged in), before you try connecting from the client remotely using the correct user@host incantation? > waiting up to 20 seconds > > xpra initialization error: > cannot find live server for display :2 > / > > $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR *does* exist, on the server and the client. > /run/user/1010 exists on the (nixos) client, but there's no /run/user on > gentoo (that I can see). Therefore, my $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set to > ~/.xpra, which is present and rwe by the user, as is ~/.xdg/xpra. > There's a ~/.xdg/xpra/2/socket with a recent timestamp. There's nothing > relevant in /tmp on the server or the client. > > Clearly related is this, when I try to stop xpra on the server: > > /$ xpra stop > xpra initialization error: > cannot find any live servers to connect to/ > / > / > /$ ps -ef | grep xpra > user 2544 1 0 09:58 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/python3.11 > /bin/xpra start :2 --st.../ Hmm ... the UID cannot say "user" unless you created the username as "user"?
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