On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 18 o'clock on Nov 19, Dave Dodge wrote: > > [I realize xauth, or changing permissions on the unix socket, could > > probably solve this as well. But the localhost method is really, > > really easy :-] > > When you say 'xhost +localhost' you're also granting permission for > applications to connect throught the unix domain socket.
Yeah, about five minutes after I sent that message I started thinking that I used to use xhost +localhost and then unix:0 to connect from other accounts, so the xhost must have affected the unix socket somehow as well. At some point in the past I switched from using unix:0 to localhost:0 for those cases, but I can't remember if there was a specific reason for doing so (probably user error). -Dave Dodge