Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
- Subject: Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
- From: "Wil Decius" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:36:47 -0700
Hi Hans,
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Hans Kruse <email@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, the DISPLAY is not set at all. Just a hunch -- you are using
> root as your user and Linux tends to be picky about remote access by X11.
> I never do that, but there may indeed another setting that needs to be
> changed to permit this.
You're correct. On my box,
grep -i root /etc/ssh/sshd_config
AllowUsers wil root
AllowGroups at wheel root
PermitRootLogin yes
Either way, the problems/errors are the same if I try any of the above
as user=wil.
Wil
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