Bug 7472

Summary:	/etc/Xn.hosts is not working
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Ryan Underwood <nemesis>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Ryan Underwood 2006-07-09 15:06:25 UTC

Hi,

Since moving to Xorg on one machine (7.0.22), I have this bug.  In
/etc/X0.hosts:
local:

When I check the access list it shows:
$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
LOCAL:

However, a different user with DISPLAY=:0 cannot connect to the server.

If I then
$ xhost local:
non-network local connections being added to access control list

xhost shows the same output

$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
LOCAL:

But then the different user can connect to the server.

This setup worked for XFree86 4.3.0.  Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or
not.

Comment 1 Ryan Underwood 2006-08-03 12:15:09 UTC

Has anyone looked at this?  Is /etc/Xn.hosts still the correct way to 
accomplish this?

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2006-08-03 12:31:43 UTC

Yes, /etc/Xn.hosts is still supposed to work and is the only way the X server
provides to initialize the host access list.   I fixed a bug here a few releases
back, but haven't had a chance to look into this report yet.

Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:32:53 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 4 chemtech 2013-03-15 14:48:10 UTC

Ryan Underwood 
Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ?
Please check the status of your issue.

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 22:16:55 UTC

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