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Īs seen above, there are no Unix domain sockets there.
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Output of /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory on remote machine can be seen below: # ls -la /tmp/.X11-unix/ĭrwxrwxrwt 4 root root 80 Jan 13 09:17. SSH server version is OpenSSH_5.9p1 and SSH client version is OpenSSH_5.2p1. A display consists (simplified) of: a keyboard, a mouse. In Putty, the X display location box reads localhost:0 by default.
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The X display server install itself normally as display number 0 on your local machine. I tried to find some useful log entries both on machine where SSH server is running and machine where SSH client is running with find /var/log/ -mmin -5 -type f command, but this did not give any hints. The DISPLAY environment variable instructs an X client which X server it is to connect to by default. X forwarding doesn't use xhost so at least this can be excluded. Program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. You may get a more descriptive message by running the The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. (wireshark:10083): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:11.0 However, X clients on remote machine do not start properly: # wireshark In addition, it creates the $DISPLAY variable which points to this proxy and calls the xauth to install a proxy key which authenticates to this X-server proxy on remote machine: # echo "$DISPLAY"Ī58/unix:11 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 39324086672d1ae35e373476c3891a77 On local machine, I have started SSH client with -X flag which instructs the SSH server, running on remote machine, to set up a X-server proxy. I have enabled X forwarding on remote machine where SSH server is running: # grep -i forward /etc/ssh/sshd_config