How can I make the premissions user based rather than host based? xhosts man page
talks about implementing the user based mechanism but does not say what it is.
Bret
Ford Prefect wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> > To make things easier I built a cheap and dirty script that did the display
> > variable setting and launch the program.
>
> Not a bad idea - In my more adolescent days (*grin*) I wrote a script I called
> 'screw' which set the display to localhost, and ran 'endsession -f', which on
> the SGI Indy and O2 machines closes the current X session. So I could just
> type 'rsh <remotecomputer> screw' and log someone out. Could be done by hand,
> but the script made Session Wars so much easier... don't ask, in a lab of 30
> SGIs we sometimes get punchy...
>
> > BTW where is the xhost stuff stored? I have not rebooted yet will my addition of
> > the local ip to the allowed access list survive a reboot?
>
> No it won't, but you can add it to the startup scripts, either for that
> particular user, or for XDM if that's what you run. For XDM, look in
> /var/X11R6/lib/xdm for the file Xsetup_0, and add the commands there. (That's
> on a Slackware box, don't know if it's in a different location on RedHat)
>
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