Does anyone understand xauth?

[Phil Meyer]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to get Bluetooth (bluez) running on my computer,
> and I see in the rather sparse documentation
> a suggestion that one should give the command "xhosts +".
>
> As far as I can see, xhosts has been replaced
> (everywhere, or just in Fedora?) by xauth.
> I looked at "man xauth", which I suspect was written by aliens,
> but I couldn't see what could take the place of "xhosts +".
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
>   
Make that 'xhost' :)
as in: /usr/bin/xhost
part of: xorg-x11-server-utils

And yes, the job of xhost is an easier interface to xauth.

Good Luck!