On 07/30/11 10:38, Erik Saule wrote: > 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.
That's better - thanks for revising. Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
