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How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 18.04I get this prompt, no SSH key. I’m using the root password.
“Connection failed. mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate loctl for device”
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In root/.profile
- Comment out
mesg n || true - Add the following line:
tty -s && mesg n
Heya,
To fix this, SSH into your server if you’re not already connected and edit /root/.profile with your preferred text editor.
$ nano /root/.profile
It probably looks like this at first:
# ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells.
if [ "$BASH" ]; then
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
fi
mesg n || true
We’ll just have to change the last line by adding tty -s && at the beginning of the last line. It should look like this:
# ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells.
if [ "$BASH" ]; then
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
fi
tty -s && mesg n || true
Save and close the file when you’re finished and try connecting to the server again. It should work without problems.
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