On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 13:00:09 -0400, Erik Saule wrote: > 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. > Sounds like useful suggestions to me. Would you be willing to write a patch against the manpage and send it to xorg-de...@lists.x.org for review?
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