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diff --git a/man/xhost.man b/man/xhost.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a805edf --- /dev/null +++ b/man/xhost.man @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. 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In the case of hosts, this provides +a rudimentary 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. +.SH OPTIONS +\fIXhost\fP accepts the following command line options described below. For +security, the options that affect access control 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. +.TP 8 +.B \-help +Prints a usage message. +.TP 8 +.BI "[+]" "name" +The given \fIname\fP (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. +.TP 8 +.BI \- "name" +The given \fIname\fP 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. +.TP 8 +.B \+ +Access is granted to everyone, even if they aren't on the list +(i.e., access control is turned off). +.TP 8 +.B \- +Access is restricted to only those on the list +(i.e., access control is turned on). +.TP 8 +.I nothing +If no command line arguments are given, +a message indicating whether or not access control is currently 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 controlling host. +.SH NAMES +A complete name has the syntax +``family:name'' where the families are +as follows: +.PP +.nf +.ta 1i +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 +.fi +.PP +The family is case insensitive. +The format of the name varies with the family. +.PP +When Secure RPC is being used, the +network independent netname (e.g., "nis:unix.\fIuid\fP@\fIdomainname\fP") can +be specified, or a local user can be specified with just the username +and a trailing at-sign (e.g., "nis:pat@"). +.PP +For backward compatibility with pre-R6 \fIxhost\fP, +names that contain an at-sign (@) are assumed to be in the nis family. +Otherwise they are assumed to be Internet addresses. If compiled to support +IPv6, then all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses returned by getaddrinfo(__libmansuffix__) are added to +the access list in the appropriate inet or inet6 family. +.PP +Server interpreted addresses consist of a case-sensitive type tag and a +string representing a given value, separated by a colon. For example, +"si:hostname:almas" is a server interpreted address of type \fIhostname\fP, +with a value of \fIalmas\fP. For more information on the available forms +of server interpreted addresses, see the \fIXsecurity\fP(__miscmansuffix__) +manual page. +.PP +The initial access control list for display number \fBn\fP +may be set by the file \fI/etc/X\fBn\fI.hosts\fR, where +\fBn\fP is the display number of the server. See \fIXserver\fP(__appmansuffix__) +for details. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +For each name added to the access control list, +a line of the form "\fIname\fP being added to access control list" +is printed. +For each name removed from the access control list, +a line of the form "\fIname\fP being removed from access control list" +is printed. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +X(__miscmansuffix__), Xsecurity(__miscmansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), xdm(__appmansuffix__), xauth(__appmansuffix__), getaddrinfo(__libmansuffix__) +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP 8 +.B DISPLAY +to get the default host and display to use. +.SH BUGS +.PP +You can't specify a display on the command line because +.B \-display +is a valid command line argument (indicating that you want +to remove the machine named +.I ``display'' +from the access list). +.PP +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, \fIxhost\fP must +be used to add the new address and/or remove the old address. +.SH AUTHORS +Bob Scheifler, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, +.br +Jim Gettys, MIT Project Athena (DEC). |