Hi,
the scenario: A device with a serial console for example a raspberry pi, orange pi, esp8266 with tasmota, digital multimeter etc. runs headless, but you want to able to connect to the serial console with linux system here called serialServer over the network.
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Hi,
you have properly configured putty to use X11 forwarding but it fails?
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Hi,
when you use X11 forwarding with PuTTY or ssh -X a TCP Socket is opened to which each user can connect. The connection to the X11 itself is protected by an authentification cookie.
Means when you add this cookie to the session launched by su you could use X11 forwarding.
An example. Connect to a linux machine as user michael (by putty or from another linux machine)
1 | michael@debdev ~ # ssh -X michael@debdev1 |
In the session of debdev1 list all xauth cookies.
1 2 | michael@debdev1 ~ # xauth listdebdev1/unix:10 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7ea68cc88e74c1697aa6c757504fc0d7 |
Note: these cookies are stored the users home directory in file .Xauthority => ~/.Xauthority
Then switch to another user on this machine
1 | michael@debdev1 ~ # sudo su helena |
When you try to start a X11 client you got some errors like this
1 2 | helena@debdev1 ~ # xtermCan't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:10.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable. |
Then verify you already have a ~/.Xauthority file
1 | helena@debdev1 ~ # ls -l ~/.Xauthority |
If not create a new file
1 | helena@debdev1 ~ # touch ~/.Xauthority |
and add the authentification cookie
1 | helena@debdev1 ~ # xauth add debdev1/unix:10 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7ea68cc88e74c1697aa6c757504fc0d7 |
Then you should be able to start X11 programs
Michael
Hi,
a friend of mine had the problem that X11 forwarding does not work on his linux box. I obligate him to check:
Ensure a X11 server is running at your local client.
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