From b4b6b19c9a834df980e9209f1c44318fd67f3e8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Coopersmith Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:27:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Xserver.man: remove X FireWall Proxy (xfwp) info xfwp has not been maintained in many years, with ssh X11-Forwarding preferred instead. Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith Part-of: --- man/Xserver.man | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man index 5043e59b8..99fa3be15 100644 --- a/man/Xserver.man +++ b/man/Xserver.man @@ -491,15 +491,6 @@ local: Users can add or remove hosts from this list and enable or disable access control using the \fIxhost\fP command from the same machine as the server. .PP -If the X FireWall Proxy (\fIxfwp\fP) is being used without a sitepolicy, -host-based authorization must be turned on for clients to be able to -connect to the X server via the \fIxfwp\fP. If \fIxfwp\fP is run without -a configuration file and thus no sitepolicy is defined, if \fIxfwp\fP -is using an X server where xhost + has been run to turn off host-based -authorization checks, when a client tries to connect to this X server -via \fIxfwp\fP, the X server will deny the connection. See \fIxfwp\fP(1) -for more information about this proxy. -.PP The X protocol intrinsically does not have any notion of window operation permissions or place any restrictions on what a client can do; if a program can connect to a display, it has full run of the screen. @@ -615,7 +606,7 @@ Fonts: \fIbdftopcf\fP(1), \fImkfontdir\fP(1), \fImkfontscale\fP(1), Keyboards: \fIxkeyboard\-config\fP(@miscmansuffix@) .PP Security: \fIXsecurity\fP(@miscmansuffix@), \fIxauth\fP(1), \fIXau\fP(1), -\fIxdm\fP(1), \fIxhost\fP(1), \fIxfwp\fP(1), +\fIxdm\fP(1), \fIxhost\fP(1) .I "Security Extension Specification" .PP Starting the server: \fIstartx\fP(1), \fIxdm\fP(1), \fIxinit\fP(1)