General Tab in Advanced Secure Shell Settings
How do I get to this dialog box?
From the Administrative Console and X Manager
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(Administrative Console only) Click the Domain Definitions tab.
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Under X Clients on the left, select a client definition.
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Set Connection Method to Secure Shell.
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Click the Advanced button.
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Click the General tab.
The options are:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Port | Enter the port number on which the SSH server is listening. The default is 22. |
| Enable Secure Shell compression | Compress all data (including stdin, stdout, stderr, and data for forwarded X11 connections) using Zlib compression. |
| Tunnel X11 connections | Automatically forward all data sent from the remote X11 port through the secure tunnel to the correct local port. |
| Note: The xauth command options are not available when Tunnel X11 connections is enabled (the default). | |
| 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. |
| Quiet mode | Suppress banner messages sent by the host. |
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