AnyDesk - How Enable Remote Access from ubuntu/debian terminal

anydesk-enable-remote-access.md

###AnyDesk - How Enable Remote Access from ubuntu/debian terminal.

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Here are the commands might be usefull in this purpose:

• anydesk --get-status : To get current status of anydesk, which might be offlien,online or nothing.
• anydesk --get-id : To get the ID that your system can be accessed by.
• anydesk --service : To start anydesk service if not already running (for Linux).
• anydesk --restart-service : To restart anydesk service
• anydesk --stop-service : To stop anydesk service
• sudo echo qazwsxedc | anydesk --set-password : to set password on anydesk (required to access from a remote system).

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In case that your target machine is a kind of a Ubuntu or a Debian based one:

1. echo -e "ad.security.allow_logon_token=true\nad.features.unattended=true" >> ~/.anydesk/user.conf
2. sudo echo [your-custom-password] | anydesk --set-password
3. sudo sed -i '' -e 's/# AutomaticLogin/AutomaticLogin/g' -e 's/#WaylandEnable/WaylandEnable/g' /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
4. sudo reboot
5. Drink your coffee, and wait until your system becomes up and accessible via ssh or terminal.
6. Run anydesk --get-status , if its not online then run anydesk --service.
7. Run anydesk --get-id && echo to get your desk id.
8. Use your desk id in your Anydesk client, to access the remote system.

Github: github.com/imami , Twitter: @e_imami

In Ubuntu I didn't need to put anything in ~/.anydesk/user.conf to do unattended logins, setting the password for AnyDesk using the root user was enough.

Can you provide more information on this?
What I did was su root sudo echo [my-password] | sudo anydesk --set-password
But I still get back the same error, Setting the password requires administrator privileges and an installed service. 1 / 1000

I just checked the history of commands I used and honestly I had no problem setting the password running this command (obviously using the root user): echo [password] | anydesk --set-password

I don't have much experience with AnyDesk (and ended up not using it because I couldn't solve the famous black screen problem after logging into Ubuntu), but maybe installing another version would solve your problem of setting the password.

Thank you for your reply, even you had decided to drop AnyDesk.
After some search around the net, I found a working solution.

1. Switch to root

2. update /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, which involve variables below:

   WaylandEnable=false
   AutomaticLoginEnable = true
   AutomaticLogin = $USERNAME
   

So far I managed to setup unattended access and it runs well. I don't experience black screen issue, I am on [email protected] and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Another thing to note, I still don't get a success in echo [password] | anydesk --set-password. But since it's up and I can set the password at GUI, I suppose my issue is solved now.

@JonahTzuChi, thank you for your help, but my problem solving the black screen issue is that I'm trying to set up AnyDesk in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and this version of Ubuntu doesn't use gdm3, so I can't use those settings you provided. I can guarantee you that I tried everything I found online but to no avail. Either way, many people will find your settings useful.

@JonahTzuChi, thank you for your help, but my problem solving the black screen issue is that I'm trying to set up AnyDesk in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and this version of Ubuntu doesn't use gdm3, so I can't use those settings you provided. I can guarantee you that I tried everything I found online but to no avail. Either way, many people will find your settings useful.

I believe you do! I feel like talking through a time tunnel 14.04LTS!!!

sudo echo [my-password] | sudo anydesk --set-password

If you set a weak password, the command will not work. Suggested Password Eg: GitHub@2023

Reference: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552742/how-to-enable-unattended-access-in-anydesk-debian-10-openbox-lightdm

This worked for me on Ubuntu 20

I am facing the issue with mint, can some give me the steps to clear this anydesk issue on mint

I have tried this in both ubuntu and mint, its not working still i see the same issue "please do not start anydesk as root user this might lead to unexpected behavior"

1. we have a requirement where we need to login as root user and need to run the anydesk application
2. In both ubuntu and Mint after logging as root in gui, the anydesk throws the same error
   Kindly provide some inputs