xhost, su, and sudo (REPOST)

On Friday 02 January 2004 1:37 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you won't need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more info.)

Interesting - my system has xhost (as most do!) but no manpage for xhost. Is there a version of "sudo" that avoids the need for "xhost +localhost"? Paul Abrahams (reposted under a more appropriate thread title)