Summary: | xhost crashes when user is specified -- man page unclear on whether it's possible | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Zdenek Behan <rain> |
Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Zdenek Behan
2004-10-15 13:57:17 UTC
Is this via ssh? If so, try the -Y option to ssh. Has nothing to do with ssh. I was trying to add trusted users to xhost, and i used local login (namely Konsole - xterm). Oh and i forgot to mention that i also have full permissions to do it, ie. i own the display, and i'm not running xhost as another user. I think what you may want is xauth. Ahh, this will work. Thanks alot! (However, xhost still crashes for me under the conditions described, i guess it could say instead that there's a better utility to do the job, and not point out in the man page that you can "specify host name or a user name", which is rather confusing. Or something like that.) It appears that the username is only allowed in xhost when using NIS. If you'd like to file a bug at bugs.freedesktop.org on the clarity of the man page, feel free to do so. It'll probably get committed faster if you actually attach a diff to the man page. Thanks! |