Thursday, November 14, 2013

Remote Display using ssh - xterm issue

When you try to access remote system display through ssh you may get below error .

$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 
xterm:  DISPLAY is not set
CHECKING REMOTE DISPLAY CONFIGURATION 

$ echo $DISPLAY

CHANGE BELOW VALUES IN THE FILE 

$ VI /etc/ssh/sshd_config 
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
RESTART THE SSHD SERVICE
#service sshd restart 
CONNECT REMOTE SERVER 
#ssh -X root@remoteserver.com
TEST X SERVER DISPLAY
#xterm

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