About xhost security policies

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 21:39:30 PST 2007


>
> If you want to grant other accounts access to your X session, extract
> the authentication credentials using "xauth extract ...", transfer
> them to the other account, then have that account add them to its own
> ~/.Xauthority file using "xauth merge ...".
>

or use server interpreted,

xhost +si:localuser:username

Dave.

> > Is there some documentation or specification available online about
> > the xhost authentication policy? Or does someone have deeper
> > knowledge about?
>
>         man xauth
>
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> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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