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1.1       root        1: .TH XHOST 1 "25 January 1986" "X Version 10"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: xhost - X window system access control program
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B xhost
                      6: [+-]host ...
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Xhost
                      9: is used to add and delete hosts to the list of machines X will accept
                     10: connections from.
                     11: This is an elementary form of privacy control, since otherwise X would
                     12: be willing to create windows for anyone on the internet.
                     13: It is only sufficient for a workstation (single user) environment,
                     14: though it does limit the worst abuses.
                     15: .PP
                     16: If you want to set up hosts that you always trust, you can
                     17: specify them in your login file, or you can specify the hosts
                     18: in the file \fI/etc/X*.hosts\fP,
                     19: where * is the number of the display on the machine.
                     20: .PP
                     21: Specifying a host name (with an optional leading plus sign)
                     22: adds that host to the list; use a leading minus sign to delete
                     23: a host.
                     24: .PP
                     25: DECnet nodes should be specified as names with trailing ``::''.
                     26: .PP
                     27: This program can only be executed on the machine the display is
                     28: connected to.
                     29: .PP
                     30: It is possible to remove the current host from the access list. 
                     31: Be warned that you can't undo this without logging out.
                     32: .PP
                     33: .I Xhost
                     34: with no arguments will print the current hosts allowed to access your
                     35: display.
                     36: .SH FILES
                     37: /etc/X*.hosts
                     38: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     39: X(8C), xterm(1)
                     40: .SH ENVIRONMENT
                     41: DISPLAY        -       To find out which X you are using.
                     42: .SH AUTHOR
                     43: Copyright 1985 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
                     44: .br
                     45: See \fIX(1)\fP for a complete copyright notice.
                     46: .br
                     47: Bob Scheifler, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science,
                     48: Jim Gettys, MIT Project Athena (DEC).

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