Use one or more of the following XAUTH commands to copy entries for a particular display from one X authority file to another. This enables you to use an existing entry to grant another user access to a particular display or to obtain access to a remote host from the current display device. o EXTRACT - Creates a new X authority file whose entries match those in the original file. o MERGE - Appends the contents of one file to another, replacing entries for the same display name or adding entries for different names. o NEXTRACT and NMERGE - These commands are designed to be used with the PIPE command. NEXTRACT extracts file entries in a text format that can then be used as input for the NMERGE command. For example, the following command extracts the X authority file entry for the local transport from the file UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH and adds it to a new X authority file NEW_XAUTHORITY.DECW$XAUTH: $ PIPE XAUTH -f UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH NEXTRACT SYS$OUTPUT :0 | - _$ XAUTH -f NEW_XAUTHORITY.DECW$XAUTH NMERGE SYS$INPUT These commands can also be used with the rsh command to copy entries from an X authority file on an OpenVMS host to an X authority file on a remote UNIX system. For example, the following command extracts the entry for TCP/IP access (TCPIP/0:0) and adds it to the current file for user SMITH on the remote UNIX system FLOPSY: $ PIPE XAUTH -f UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH NEXTRACT TCPIP/0:0 | - _$ rsh/user=smith/password=secret flopsy "xauth nmerge -" NOTE When using the PIPE and XAUTH commands to pass information to a UNIX host, you must press Ctrl/C to terminate the connection to the UNIX host and return control to OpenVMS.