topic Re: Problem disabling xhost in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem disabling xhost

Paul F. Bennett — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:21:30 GMT

For security reasons, I am attempting to disable xhost on my 11:23 system. I run the command:

# xhost -
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
xhost: must be on local machine to enable or disable access control.

All seems well, however, when I run the command xhost with no options is says the access control is disable:

# xhost
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

What am i missing?

Re: Problem disabling xhost

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:26:26 GMT

Shalom,

Its disabled by default.

xhost +

That will disable security

You appear to be trying to enable something that is already enabled.

SEP

Re: Problem disabling xhost

Paul F. Bennett — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:35:23 GMT

From what i understand the 'xhost' cmd will show the status, it ALWAYS shows Disabled whether the prior command is 'xhost -' or 'xhost +'

Re: Problem disabling xhost

Dennis Handly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:07:40 GMT

>What am I missing?

My xhost works on 11.11 and 11.23:
$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
...

>xhost cmd will show the status

Yes:
nothing: If no command line arguments are given, a message indicating whether or not access control is currently enabled is printed, ...

>it ALWAYS shows Disabled whether the prior command is 'xhost -' or 'xhost +'

What about using "xhost name"?

Have you looked at ACCESS CONTROL under X(1)?

Re: Problem disabling xhost

Paul F. Bennett — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:50:52 GMT

PROBLEM RESOLVED - With going into details, mainly becasue I can't :-) The problem was caused by a secuirty setting, within my Exceed (Hummingbird) application.

Re: Problem disabling xhost

dictum9 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:26:56 GMT

What was that setting in Exceed?

I am getting that exact same error message.