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.TH AUTHBIND\-HELPER 8 "30th August 1998" "Debian Project" "Debian Linux manual"
.br
.SH NAME
(ommitted for IPv4; the fixed string
.B 6
for IPv6).
-The address and port should be hex strings,
+.I addr4-hex
+and
+.I port-hex
+should be hex strings,
.I without
leading
.BR 0x ,
-of exactly the right length (8 or 32, and 4, digits, respectively), being
-a pairs of hex digits for each byte in the address or port number when
+of exactly the right length (8 and 4 digits, respectively), being
+a pair of hex digits for each byte in the address or port number when
expressed in host byte order. For example, the port argument is the
result of something like
.B sprintf(arg,
.B """%04X"",
.BR sin.sin_port) .
+.I addr6-hex
+should be a string of 32 hex digits, being a pair for each byte in
+the address, in network byte order.
.SH EXIT STATUS
.B helper
will exit with code 0 on success.