Does anyone understand xauth?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:43 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> 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 +".
>>>
>> This will let anyone on your computer connect to the X server - OK
>> on a home system, I guess, but bad security.
>>
> That is done by the '+ in xhost +. You can restrict access by inserting
> host names in place of the '+'.
> 
You can also specify user names after the +. You can also specify
"family" the host/name belongs to. This is better then just doing
"xhost +", but is still not that great of security any more...

Mikkel
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