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man : xhost(1)
XHOST(1) XHOST(1)
NAME
xhost - server access control program for X
SYNOPSIS
xhost [[+-]name ...]
DESCRIPTION
The xhost program is used to add and delete host names or
user names to the list allowed to make connections to the
X server. In the case of hosts, this provides a rudimen-
tary form of privacy control and security. It is only
sufficient for a workstation (single user) environment,
although it does limit the worst abuses. Environments
which require more sophisticated measures should implement
the user-based mechanism or use the hooks in the protocol
for passing other authentication data to the server.
OPTIONS
Xhost accepts the following command line options described
below. For security, the options that affect access con-
trol may only be run from the "controlling host". For
workstations, this is the same machine as the server. For
X terminals, it is the login host.
-help Prints a usage message.
[+]name The given name (the plus sign is optional) is
added to the list allowed to connect to the X
server. The name can be a host name or a user
name.
-name The given name is removed from the list of allowed
to connect to the server. The name can be a host
name or a user name. Existing connections are not
broken, but new connection attempts will be
denied. Note that the current machine is allowed
to be removed; however, further connections
(including attempts to add it back) will not be
permitted. Resetting the server (thereby breaking
all connections) is the only way to allow local
connections again.
+ Access is granted to everyone, even if they aren't
on the list (i.e., access control is turned off).
- Access is restricted to only those on the list
(i.e., access control is turned on).
nothing If no command line arguments are given, a message
indicating whether or not access control is cur-
rently enabled is printed, followed by the list of
those allowed to connect. This is the only option
that may be used from machines other than the con-
trolling host.
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NAMES
A complete name has the syntax ``family:name'' where the
families are as follows:
inet Internet host (IPv4)
inet6 Internet host (IPv6)
dnet DECnet host
nis Secure RPC network name
krb Kerberos V5 principal
local contains only one name, the empty string
si Server Interpreted
The family is case insensitive. The format of the name
varies with the family.
When Secure RPC is being used, the network independent
netname (e.g., "nis:unix.uid@domainname") can be speci-
fied, or a local user can be specified with just the user-
name and a trailing at-sign (e.g., "nis:pat@").
For backward compatibility with pre-R6 xhost, names that
contain an at-sign (@) are assumed to be in the nis fam-
ily. Otherwise they are assumed to be Internet addresses.
If compiled to support IPv6, then all IPv4 and IPv6
addresses returned by getaddrinfo(3) are added to the
access list in the appropriate inet or inet6 family.
Server interpreted addresses consist of a case-sensitive
type tag and a string representing a given value, sepa-
rated by a colon. For example, "si:hostname:almas" is a
server interpreted address of type hostname, with a value
of almas. For more information on the available forms of
server interpreted addresses, see the Xsecurity(7) manual
page.
DIAGNOSTICS
For each name added to the access control list, a line of
the form "name being added to access control list" is
printed. For each name removed from the access control
list, a line of the form "name being removed from access
control list" is printed.
FILES
/etc/X*.hosts
SEE ALSO
X(7), Xsecurity(7), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xauth(1), getad-
drinfo(3)
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display to use.
BUGS
You can't specify a display on the command line because
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-display is a valid command line argument (indicating that
you want to remove the machine named ``display'' from the
access list).
The X server stores network addresses, not host names,
unless you use the server-interpreted hostname type
address. If somehow you change a host's network address
while the server is still running, and you are using a
network-address based form of authentication, xhost must
be used to add the new address and/or remove the old
address.
AUTHORS
Bob Scheifler, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science,
Jim Gettys, MIT Project Athena (DEC).
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