[PATCH] [xhost] man: xhost can not take a user name as a parameter.

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/30/11 10:38, Erik Saule wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:48:20PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 07/23/11 15:24, Erik Saule wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I submit a patch for review on the man page of the xhost
>>> utility. running "xhost <username>" does not work in xhost
>>> anymore. This patch corrects the man page to reflect this behavior and
>>> propose an alternative way of doing so.
>>
>> That's an incorrect assumption - xhost +username has always worked the
>> same and only supported Secure RPC authentication, which is the one place
>> in the man page where it's fully described as working.
>>
>> If someone could figure out how to reword the man page to make that clearer,
>> I'd love to see the patch, but just removing it and pretending it doesn't
>> work for Secure RPC users is the wrong answer.
> 
> Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I submit a new patch that
> rephrased the description of the "name" parameter in the "options"
> section as: "The name can be a host name, a Secure RPC user name or a
> complete name (See NAMES for more details)."
> 
> The patch also hint to the server interpreted addresses to specify a
> local user.

That's better - thanks for revising.

Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

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