xhost: /etc/X*.hosts
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Oct 7 11:24:19 PDT 2010
Jeremy Huddleston 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...
/etc/X<display-number>.hosts is read by the X server at startup - xhost
doesn't read or write to it, but it affects the initial set of hosts
in the access list that xhost manages. The Xserver(1) man page is where
it's actually documented.
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