On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:44:30 +1100 Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, xhost predates xauth. Xhost controls access to your display based on > the IP of the client - very weak. Xauth requires the client to produce > an authentication token. Using xhost effectively bypasses the token > authentication; it is generally to be avoided if possible. Speaking of xauth and paranoid X security, does anyone know how to get a client to display in an Xnest server? The default security seems to be so high, there there isn't even a way to run xhost to turn it off because xhost isn't allowed to communicate with the Xnest server :-). The only way I've ever gotten anything to work in recent versions of Xnest is by using the -ac option to totally disable all security.
