[PATCH] man: xhost can not take a user name as a parameter.
Erik Saule
esaule at bmi.osu.edu
Sat Jul 23 15:11:10 PDT 2011
However, server interpreted addresses can be used to achieve the same
behavior.
---
man/xhost.man | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/xhost.man b/man/xhost.man
index a805edf..aecab6e 100644
--- a/man/xhost.man
+++ b/man/xhost.man
@@ -75,11 +75,18 @@ Prints a usage message.
.BI "[+]" "name"
The given \fIname\fP (the plus sign is optional)
is added to the list allowed to connect to the X server.
-The name can be a host name or a user name.
+The name can be a host name or a complete name (See
+.SM
+.B NAMES
+for more details).
.TP 8
.BI \- "name"
The given \fIname\fP is removed from the list of allowed
-to connect to the server. The name can be a host name or a user name.
+to connect to the server. The name can be a host name or a complete
+name (See
+.SM
+.B NAMES
+for more details).
Existing connections are not broken, but new
connection attempts will be denied.
Note that the current machine is allowed to be removed; however, further
@@ -131,6 +138,11 @@ Otherwise they are assumed to be Internet addresses. If compiled to support
IPv6, then all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses returned by getaddrinfo(__libmansuffix__) are added to
the access list in the appropriate inet or inet6 family.
.PP
+The local family specifies all the local connections at once. However,
+the server interpreted address "si:localuser:\fIusername\fP" can be
+used to specify a single local user. (See the
+\fIXsecurity\fP(__miscmansuffix__) manual page for more details.)
+.PP
Server interpreted addresses consist of a case-sensitive type tag and a
string representing a given value, separated by a colon. For example,
"si:hostname:almas" is a server interpreted address of type \fIhostname\fP,
--
1.7.2.5
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
More information about the xorg-devel
mailing list