[Sheflug] Still can't understand Xhost etc.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    Barrie>  Could someone tell me how to permanantly allow several
    Barrie> users and/or all local users to connect to the X Server on
    Barrie> my machine?

Put

			    xhost +local:

in your Xsession, xinitrc, or whatever you use to start your session
(the window manager's start function is fine too).  The colon is
signficant and must be attached to the word local IIRC.
 
    Barrie>  su'ing to root and running xhost +localhost gives the

Right.  root != baz.  In the original scenario, baz owns the X server,
nobody else can connect without his permission.  No connect, no
changes to authentication.


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