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

[Erik Saule]

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.