On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:07:17PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user > > > > on any other system to connect to your X server as well. > > > > > > Actually, you will be allowing any user on system 'root' to connect. > > > > Not according to the xhost man page: > > I think you have misinterpreted the man page. You can only add users if > you are authenticating via kerberos or NIS. In that case, you would have > to specify 'xhost +nis:root@' to get the desired behavior. And it won't > work (i.e. grant anybody any access) unless you have Secure RPC. If you > just specify a single word, xhost will assume you mean a network system > and in fact it will give an error if you just type 'xhost +root' and there > is no system called 'root' on your network. > > (Yes, the man page is magically obscure on this point :} ) ---end quoted text---
The man page is magically obscure, _and_ the system behaves as if the _user_ root _is_ allowed to display. I don't believe I have all that secure jazz in my setup either, but it worked for me. And I assure you, I don't have any system named root on my local network. Mind you, I didn't try logging in to another system as root and trying to display to the X server in question. The other solution, setting XAUTHORITY in the root environment to that of the user that owns the X session, also worked for me. I've never seen that before - neat. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
