The "by" prepositional phrase authenticates that an account or proxy account for a particular user has been set up with the proper access control information. Use of the by preposition is portable to other DECnet-Plus systems. Use the following format to append access control information using the by preposition. by user=username, password=password, account=account, - proxy={TRUE/FALSE} For Tru64 UNIX, NCL ignores any use of the by proxy clause so that the modifier "by proxy=true" (i.e., proxy access allowed) is always in effect. If user j_smith has privileges to access the session control application graphics_exchange on the remote node, he can use the by preposition as follows: ncl> ! On node .admin.finance ncl> show node .admin.artists session control application - _ncl> graphics_exchange all counters, by user=j_smith, - _ncl> password=DoNotUse . . . For Tru64 UNIX, access control does not have any effect when the NCL command is directed to the local node. This happens because NCL uses interprocess communication instead of DECnet-Plus to communicate with node 0, the local node, and therefore the user's privileges are determined by the user id that NCL is running under.