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Advanced Rsh Settings

How do I get to this dialog box?

From the Administrative Console and X Manager

  1. (Administrative Console only) Click the Domain Definitions tab.

  2. Under X Clients on the left, select a client definition.

  3. Set Connection Method to Rsh.

  4. Click the Advanced button.

The options are:

Option Description
Use alternate xauth command Select this option to configure an alternate xauth command. The xauth command affects sessions in which Network Security > User-based authorization is enabled.
Xauth command Specify an alternate command to place an MIT cookie in the .XAuthority file in the user's home directory.
Macros are supported. For example, in the following command, %IP#% provides the IP address and display number, and %C% specifies MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization and provides the required hex encoded authorization data.
xauth add %IP#% %C%
This option is available only when Use alternate xauth command is selected.

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