Host-Based Access

A host-based mechanism is a general-purpose mechanism. This type of mechanism enables you to give access to a particular host, in which all users on that host can connect to the server. A host-based mechanism is a weaker form of access control. If the host has access to the server, all users on that host are allowed to connect to the server.

The Solaris environment provides the host-based mechanism for backward compatibility.

Relink clients that are linked with older versions of Xlib or libcps to enable them to connect to the server with the new user-based access control mechanism.