topic xhost in Operating System - Linux

xhost

Chakravarthi — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:02:01 GMT

Hi,

how do i restrict people using "xhost +" command?

regards
chakri

Josef Forman — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:09:46 GMT

What kind of restriction?
You can prepare /etc/X0.hosts file. Here you can write down who will have access to the machine.

PF

Chakravarthi — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:13:43 GMT

i dont want users to use xhost + command instead they should use xhost +

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:24:06 GMT

the only way I see it's writing a wrapper and replace original xhost with your wrapper.
in your wrapper you may check arguments.