From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 22:03:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CB116A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:03:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D363043D1F for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:03:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B90B5DE5 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:03:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85246-05 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:03:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-50-112.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.50.112]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDEE5DC5 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:03:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42014E0A.5070003@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:02:50 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20050202210526.GC77499@keyslapper.net> In-Reply-To: <20050202210526.GC77499@keyslapper.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Subject: Re: xhost +localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:03:19 -0000 Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: >> i want a screensaver but the ....... xscreensaver daemon wont start >> complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still >> wont start :( > > If you're trying this on 5.3, the syntax has changed. Try something > like this: > > xhost local: > > Exactly as typed above. Please tell me you are joking. I remember learning to use "xhost +" in 1989 or '90 on X11--, before the command improved to take hostnames as arguments to control which connections were allowed and which should be refused on a per-host basis. At the time, there were so few machines running X that malicious X connections were not a significant concern. Having "xhost +localhost" work the same way as "xhost +foo.cmu.edu"-- to avoid treating the local host as a special case-- was a good idea fifteen years ago. I do not have a perfect record of suggesting things in a way that does not break backwards compatibility, but one should attempt to make the distinction between "changing something which was broken in order to get to something reasonable" and "changing something reasonable into something broken". -- -Chuck