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Re: running X on localhost with different user



I was told that it is more secure to have 

export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority

executed in one of the initialization scripts (I have it in ~/.bashrc)


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:16:56AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> > You can use the "xhost" command and enable access from the entire localhost.
> 
> Yep, that is what I used to do on XFree86 3.3.x, and specifically I would
> issue:
> xhost +localhost
> 
> Ah, I just figured it out...
> 
> xhost +local:username 
> 
> does the trick...I guess XFree86 will only allow a specific user connect to X
> for security reasons????
> 
> Sorry for the waste of bandwidth...:-/
> 
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> 
> Alan DuBoff
> Software Orchestration, Inc.
> 
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