Editing Secure Shell Settings for VT Session Profiles

After you create a session profile, you can edit the settings at any time. If a session is running, you must restart it for your modifications to be applied.

To edit a Secure Shell-enabled VT session profile:

1. In the HostExplorer Open Session dialog box, right-click the profile you want to edit and click Properties in the pop-up menu.
2. In the Session Profile dialog box, expand the Connection folder and click Secure Shell. The Secure Shell page appears in the right pane.
3. The Tunnel Profile box identifies the tunnel profile, if any, currently associated with the VT session profile you are editing.
4. • To add or to specify a different tunnel profile, click the Browse Tunnel Profiles button.
   • To remove the tunnel profile, delete it from the Tunnel Profile box.

1. • To edit the tunnel profile settings, click the Edit This Tunnel Profile button and refer to Connection Settings for information on specific settings.

     Tip:  You can also access and edit tunnel profiles from the Secure Shell Management Console. For more information, see .

   • To create a new tunnel profile, click the Create A New Tunnel Profile button and refer to To create a new tunnel profile with default settings:.
   • To reload the Host Name, Port, User Name, Authentication, and X11 settings specified in the tunnel profile, click the Reload button.
4. Modify individual parameters as necessary, bearing in mind that if you specified a tunnel profile in the previous step, any changes you make to the Host Name, Port, User Name, Authentication, and X11 parameters will be saved in your HostExplorer profile as overrides of the tunnel profile parameters.
5. • Host Name—Specify a new IP address or fully qualified domain name of a Secure Shell server host to which you want the tunnel to connect.
   • Port—Specify the host port to which the tunnel will connect.
   • User Name—Specify your login name for the host specified above. This name is used for authentication.

     Variable	User Name Value Supplied
     $USERNAME$	Workstation user’s login name.
     $username$	Workstation user’s login name in lower-case characters only.
     $COMPUTERNAME$	Name of the workstation computer. This is useful if the workstation account is set up as a general account.
     $computername$	Name of the workstation computer in lower-case characters only. This is useful if the workstation account is set up as a general account.

   • Authentication—Click the Authentication Settings button to select the type of authentication you want to use to identify yourself to the remote host. For more information on configuring authentication, see Authentication.
   • Enable X11 Port Forwarding—Select this option if you want to use the Secure Shell tunnel to secure X11 sessions.
5. Click OK.