broken ssh

[Nils Kassube]

Mark C. Miller wrote:
> On 06/13/2010 05:36 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Mark C. Miller wrote:
> >> How do I edit that file:
> >> 
> >> I tried this
> >> 
> >> root at eyore:~# gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> >> 
> >> and got thisd
> > 
> >> (gedit:26046): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > Usually root has no permission to access the display of a normal
> > user. Therefore you need gksu to give root permission. As a normal
> > user try this:
> > 
> > gksu gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> > 
> > 
> > Nils
> >
> >not much difference in the result
> 
> mark at eyore:~$ gksu gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> 
> (gksu:26494): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Hmm, strange. I'm not sure if that would be a problem but could it be 
that you ssh to that machine and your login on that machine is different 
from the login on the local machine? If that is the reason, I don't know 
how to get access to the local display anyway. I would just use a CLI 
editor like nano:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config


Nils