xhost: /etc/X*.hosts

Pat Kane pekane52 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 11:27:21 PDT 2010


Try:
     man Xserver | grep /etc/X
on my Ubuntu system it gives:

/etc/Xn.hosts                 Initial access control list for display  number n

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> This was reported to me and I thought I should pass it along...
>
> xhost(1) has:
>
> FILES
>       /etc/X*.hosts
>
> but looking through xhost.c, I'm not sure what it's referring to...
>
> so do we
>
> 1) Remove it?
>
> 2) Change the /etc/ to something else like __sysconfdir__ and explain what these files are for?
>
>
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