Only one of several virtual nice-dcv sessions may be connected to

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I have an application that requires a single shared centos 7 instance that hosts several user accounts. Various users will remotely log into their respective accounts (sometimes concurrently) using system authentication (their linux passwords) to do work through niceDCV. I have setup a script that will automatically launch several niceDCV sessions for each user that follows this format:

sudo dcv create-session --owner <username1> --user <username1> <username1>-session
sudo dcv create-session --owner <username2> --user <username2> <username2>-session

After running this script, if I run: "sudo dcv list-sessions", I get confirmation that there is a session for both users. If I try connecting with nicedcv client, only one is successful. They other reports the following: "Unable to connect. Check the hostname/address and try again or contact the administrator".

Other interesting points:

  • Using "sudo dcv describe-session" I can get extra information about the sessions. The session I can connect to is the one with lowest X display number.
  • This remains true even if a third dcv session is established (only the one with the lowest X display number connects)
  • I can establish two connections in parallel if I follow these steps. :
    • launch one dcv session for the user with the higher X display number
    • connect through nicedcv to the user with the higher X display number
    • launch another dcv session for the user with the lower X display number
    • connect through nicedcv to the user with the lower X display number
  • On a failed connect, the dcv log gets updated (as shown in the anonymized sample below). In this example, when username1 attempts to login, a warning is thrown because it cannot create a connection to username2's session

<timestamp> INFO authenticator - Received authentication request from client <IP>
<timestamp> INFO authenticator - Sending authentication result OK to <IP> for user <username1> (2 sessions)
<timestamp> INFO authenticator - Cannot authenticate client <IP> Error reading data from TLS socket: error:00000005:lib(0):func(0):DH lib
<timestamp> INFO authenticator - Requesting token authentication for session <username2>-session using 'system' method
<timestamp> WARN frontend-handler - Cannot create connection from client <IP> to session '<username2>-session': User '<username>' not authorized on any channel

Is there a way to correct this behaviour so that when multiple dcv sessions are running they can all be connected to?

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Hi David,

did you try adding the session-id to specify which session the DCV client should connect to based on your example with #<username1>-session?

So in the client you would enter ip_or_hostname#<username1>-session.

Best regards,
Karsten

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That worked! That quick resolution was super satisfying! Thank you!

Edited by: ProlucidDavid on Jan 8, 2021 7:02 AM

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