From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 2 13:14:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05728 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:14:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05702 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from skygge.myst.no (pc43.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.50]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.3/Torbjorn) with ESMTP id XAA28078; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:14:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by skygge.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA01413; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:15:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: skygge.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:15:02 +0200 (CEST) From: "Haavard J. Vaagstoel" X-Sender: hjv@skygge.myst.no To: Michael Sierchio cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Server Access In-Reply-To: <3523CC8E.F0C4D1E9@Sun.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Michael Sierchio wrote: >> Is there anything I can do to prevent other users logged onto my system >> from running X programs on my x display? Mind you, I'm talking about >> *local* users; not users on other networks (xhost takes care of them, I >> assume). > >since your display is owned by you, you'll still need to grant access >by > > xhost localhost > xhost Yes, xhost would prevent users from other hosts, but I'm looking for something that can restrict access for other users on *this* host. My apologies if I was a little unclear in my last message. Oh, well. Perhaps xauth can be a solution. -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message