[Thinlinc-technical] No password configured for VNC Auth

[Peter Astrand]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Mattias Eliasson wrote:

> I just migrated my old server to new hardware with a clean install of Fedora 
> 21. After configuring Thinlinc everything worked perfectly, but when 
> returning after two days of absence I got "No password configured for VNC 
> Auth" when trying to log in to thinlinc. Uninstalled, deleted /opt/thinlinc 
> reinstalled and still this message.
>
> I Googled this and found some info about Xorg.conf but as far as I can tell 
> there is no such file in Thinlinc. Also other info suggests that I need to 
> create some password for VNC but that would really make no sense as thinlinc 
> takes care of security.

Typically, this error message indicates "disk full" on the server and 
similar problems. The user could also be out of quota. It could also be an 
issue with SELinux. Basically, if Xvnc cannot access 
/var/opt/thinlinc/sessions/${USER}/X/sessionkey, you will get this 
error.

Good luck, 
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