Automating Login Using Quick-Keys (VT)

You can automate your login to a UNIX host by creating a Quick-Key that contains the necessary information.

Warning!

Automating your login may create security problems.

To automate your login (VT):

1. Connect to a host.
2. On the Options menu, click Quick-Keys. The Quick-Key Editor dialog box opens.
3. In the Quick-Key Name box, type a name for the Quick-Key.
4. In the Assigned Quick-Key String box, type your login name (user id), enclosed within quotation marks.
5. In the Function Group list, click Editing Keys.
6. In the Function box, click Return.
7. Click Append Function. This action adds the command to the Assigned Quick-Key String box.
8. In the Function Group list, click System Commands.
9. In the Function list box, click Pause. Click Append Function when finished.
10. Enter your password by doing one of the following:
11. • If you have created and saved your password already in the Other category of the Connection folder, click System Commands on the Function Group list. In the Function list box, click Password. This action inserts an encrypted format of your password into the Assigned Quick-Key String box.
    • If you have not created and saved your password in the Other category of the Connection folder, type your password in the Assigned Quick-Key String box, enclosed with quotation marks.
11. In the Function Group list, click Action Keys.
12. In the Function box, click Return. Click Append Function when finished. At this point, the Assigned Quick-Key String box should contain one of the following strings:
13. • If you have entered your password in the Other category of the Connection folder:

"user id" Return Pause Password Return

1. • If you manually typed your password in the Assigned Quick-Key String box:

"user id" Return Pause "password" Return

13. Click Set to implement the Quick-Key.
14. Click Save to save the Quick-Key to a session profile.

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Related Topics

Connecting to a Host

Quick-Key Editor Dialog Box

Connection Folder—Other Category