Re: Does anyone understand xauth?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

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 '+'.
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