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Hello world! I was wondering, is it possible for me (I have admin) to change the "xhost" to "xhost -" of another user, from another computer if I'm logged on ...
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  1. 03-15-2012 #1
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    Control xhost of another user

    Hello world!

    I was wondering, is it possible for me (I have admin) to change the "xhost" to "xhost -" of another user, from another computer if I'm logged on to it remotely via ssh?

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  2. 03-18-2012 #2
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    What exactly are you trying to do? The xhost command is to control access to a specific X server, which in the case of a remote user is running on their remote system. IE, controlling access to THEIR environment. So, as I asked, what EXACTLY do you want to do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rubberman View Post
    What exactly are you trying to do? The xhost command is to control access to a specific X server, which in the case of a remote user is running on their remote system. IE, controlling access to THEIR environment. So, as I asked, what EXACTLY do you want to do?
    What I mean to do is be able to change the xhost settings for another user that is logged on via GUI. In other words, I log on remotely to a computer, there is a user that is logged on via GUI, and I can change their xhost settings using root.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vampire5 View Post
    What I mean to do is be able to change the xhost settings for another user that is logged on via GUI. In other words, I log on remotely to a computer, there is a user that is logged on via GUI, and I can change their xhost settings using root.
    See the xhost man page. You can control access to users as well as remote hosts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rubberman View Post
    See the xhost man page. You can control access to users as well as remote hosts.
    I know that, I just need to know if there's an option that isn't on the man page, that I could use. Is there a way I could specify the display?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vampire5 View Post
    I know that, I just need to know if there's an option that isn't on the man page, that I could use. Is there a way I could specify the display?
    No. As per the man page:
    You can’t specify a display on the command line because -display is a valid command line argument (indicating
    that you want to remove the machine named ‘‘display’’ from the access list).
    FWIW, this is in the BUGS section of the document.
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    Ok, thanks.
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