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NAME

6       XPAUsers: Distinguishing Users
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SYNOPSIS

9       XPA normally distinguishes between users on a given host, but it is
10       possible to send data to access points belonging to other users.
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DESCRIPTION

13       A single XPA name service typically serves all users on a given
14       machine.  Two users can register the same XPA access points on the same
15       machine without conflict, because the user's username is registered
16       with each access point and, by default, programs such as xpaget and
17       xpaset only process access points of the appropriate user.  For exam‐
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20         XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:1262 eric
21         XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:1266 eric
22         XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:2523 john
23         XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:2527 john
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25       Here the users "eric" and "john" both have registered the access points
26       xpa1 and xpa2. When either "john" or "eric" retrieves information from
27       xpa1, they will process only the access point registered in their user
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30       If you want to access another user's XPA access points on a single
31       machine, use the -u [user] option on xpaset, xpaget, etc. For example,
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34         xpaget -u john xpa1
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36       he will access John's xpa1 access point.Use "*" to access all users on
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41       Note that the XPA Environment Variable XPA_NSUSERS can be used to spec‐
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44         setenv XPA_NSUSERS "eric,john"
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46       will cause access points from both "eric" and "john" to be processed by
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SEE ALSO

50       See xpa(n) for a list of XPA help pages
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54version 2.1.8                  November 1, 2007                    xpausers(n)