I found this very problem to be a major obstacle when I migrated to
Mandrake 6.0 from RedHat 5.1. I put "xhost +machine_name" in my .xinitrc
file (I only use a single account on this machine - at least relative to
X.) and all my problems went away.
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Not exactly. As axalon has already said, it's a security feature that should
> > prevent intruders from gaining access to the Xserver. *If* you want to turn it
> > off, it's more convenient to put the line 'xhost +127.0.0.1' in your .xinitrc or
> > .xsessionrc (or to set the variable XAUTHORITY).
> >
> Well, OBVIOUSLY you wouldn't execute this every time you start X.
> However, there are some occasions when one needs to have this, such
> as when running Printtool, etc.
> John
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