On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:02:50PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > >On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: > >>i want a screensaver but the ....... xscreensaver daemon wont start > >>complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still > >>wont start :( > > > >If you're trying this on 5.3, the syntax has changed. Try something > >like this: > > > >xhost local: > > > >Exactly as typed above. > > Please tell me you are joking.
This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to not need the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE stored in the .Xauthority file in the users home directory so any user can open a program on that display. xhost +localhost adds all programs from localhost using tcp connections instead. DISPLAY=:0 causes a program to use fast unix domain sockets where DISPLAY=localhost:0 causes a program to use slow tcp sockets instead. tcp sockets are really only needed for remote connections and xhost +localhost won't allow any local programs to access X unless they use tcp, not unix. See my first response for more information. > > I remember learning to use "xhost +" in 1989 or '90 on X11--, before the > command improved to take hostnames as arguments to control which > connections were allowed and which should be refused on a per-host basis. > At the time, there were so few machines running X that malicious X > connections were not a significant concern. > > Having "xhost +localhost" work the same way as "xhost +foo.cmu.edu"-- to > avoid treating the local host as a special case-- was a good idea fifteen > years ago. > > I do not have a perfect record of suggesting things in a way that does not > break backwards compatibility, but one should attempt to make the > distinction between "changing something which was broken in order to get to > something reasonable" and "changing something reasonable into something > broken". > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
