Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Eric Ekong eric at unixtechs.org
Thu Feb 9 12:49:12 PST 2006


forgot to say  /etc/rc.d/sshd restart and then try again


* Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org> [060209 15:37]:
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:37:06 -0500
> From: Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org>
> To: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/
> Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> check /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> 
> there is a line that says
> 
> grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config                                      ~
> PermitRootLogin no
> 
> change that
> 
> grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config                                      ~
> PermitRootLogin yes
> * Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> [060209 15:31]:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>
> > To: Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > 
> > 
> > --- Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X
> > > then run the program
> > > 
> > > Eric
> > > * Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> [060209 15:00]:
> > > > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
> > > > From: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>
> > > > To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > > > Subject: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager.  I
> > > have
> > > > installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root:
> > > > 
> > > > (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > > > 
> > > > I logged in locally as a non-privileged user (who can open the
> > > program)
> > > > and su'd to root.  I then set my DISPLAY variable:
> > > > 
> > > > # DISPLAY=LOCALHOST:0.0
> > > > 
> > > > Here are the programs (mysql-administrator calls
> > > mysql-administrator-bin):
> > > > 
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   546B Feb  8 03:10
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql-administrator
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2.3M Feb  8 03:10
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql-administrator-bin
> > > > 
> > > > What should I do?
> > 
> > I tried the X11 forwarding but my password for root is not being accepted.
> > 
> > 
> > 	
> > 
> > 	
> > 		
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> 
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=======================================================
Eric I. Ekong                        eric at unixtechs.org
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve     http://www.freebsd.org           
K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD http://freebsd.kde.org           
=======================================================

Laws of Serendipity:

        (1) In order to discover anything, you must be looking for
            something.
        (2) If you wish to make an improved product, you must already
            be engaged in making an inferior one.



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