Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.5+3 Severity: normal
Dear Debian developpers and maintainers, erayo@ said (in 2001) that xhost was working properly on redhat systems while logged in as root. It is not the case in squeeze. xhost user@host seems to work (which was I believe fix the complaint of the first bug reporter). The OPTIONS section of the man page is misleading. I quote: "[+]name The given name (the plus sign is optional) is added to the list allowed to connect to the X server. The name can be a host name or a user name." The important part is "The name can be a host name or a user name". This statement also appear in the next line of the man page and is incorrect since running "xhost foo" is always interpreted as the host foo. Actually even "xhost -help" reports this. One can use the complete name syntax to provide a username by running "xhost si:localuser:foo". I suggest changing the man page to reflect this such as: "The name can be a host name or a complete name (see NAMES for more details)." I also believe adding an example of the syntax "xhost + si:localuser:foo" or a hint of its existance in the section NAMES would be useful. Adding a sentence such as : "The server interpreted addresses can also be used to specify a local user using si:localuser:login." before the "For more information on the available forms of server interpreted addresses, see the Xsecurity(7) manual page." would I believe be useful. Thank you Erik -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on: ii cpp 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.3-6 X11 Input extension library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests: pn cairo-5c <none> (no description available) pn nickle <none> (no description available) ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.5-1 Core documentation for the X.org X -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110722170009.3816.83273.report...@powell.bmi.ohio-state.edu
