xhost working differently under Debian?!

From: Eric Lavarde (Eric.Lavarde_at_bawue.de)
Date: 03/19/05

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    Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:07:43 +0100
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    Hi,

    under HP-UX and SuSE Linux flavors, I'm used to do the following
    - open two consoles
    - on one type 'xhost + localhost'
    - on the other 'su - someotheruser' and 'DISPLAY=:0 xclock' (or some
    more useful X command).
    Then xclock appears on my desktop.

    Under Debian sarge, not much extra configuration, I can't make it work.
    I always need to enter 'xhost +' and then it works.
    I tried on one side:
    - xhost + localhost
    - xhost + localhost.localdomain
    - xhost + 127.0.0.1
    and on the other side DISPLAY= with the same kinds of combinations.
    I suspect some name resolution problem but I don't know actually.

    I didn't touch /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf but here they are:

    $ cat /etc/hosts
    127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost zorglub

    # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
    ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
    fe00::0 ip6-localnet
    ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
    ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
    ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
    ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

    $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
    # /etc/nsswitch.conf
    #
    # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
    # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
    # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

    passwd: compat
    group: compat
    shadow: compat

    hosts: files dns
    networks: files

    protocols: db files
    services: db files
    ethers: db files
    rpc: db files

    netgroup: nis

    Any kind of idea?

    Thanks, Eric 

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