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
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