Enabling Magic Cookie Access Control

  Authorizing Access
  To grant clients presenting a valid magic cookie access to
  your workstation display:

  1.  Choose Security...  from Session Manager's Options menu.
      The Security Options dialog box is displayed.

  2.  Under Server Access Control, choose the Magic Cookie.

  3.  Click on OK to save and apply the changes and close the
      Configure Users dialog box.

  4.  Once enabled, a cookie is generated each time you log
      in to DECwindows.  To grant other users access to the
      X server, you must propogate the cookie to their X
      authority file using the xauth utility, as described in the

      DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS Alpha documentation.

  Disabling Access
  To disable Magic Cookie, deselect the Magic Cookie option
  and click OK or Apply.

  Generating a New Cookie

  If you believe the current cookie has been compromised, you
  can choose to generate a new cookie by clicking on the Create
  Cookie button.  This cookie can then be used by all subsequent
  client connections.

  X Authority Lock File Warning
  If you receive a lock file warning when trying to enable

  Magic Cookie access control, it indicates that the current X
  authority file is locked for editing or is being referenced by
  another process.

  Do one of the following:

  *   Click Retry to attempt to reopen the file.

  *   Click Continue to create a new X authority file.

  *   Click Cancel to end the current operation.