Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Peter
petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Thu Feb 9 12:56:17 PST 2006
--- Eric Ekong <eric at unixtechs.org> wrote:
> 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.
That was the first thing I looked at. The superuser is permitted to log
in. I didn't edit this file.
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