Use the XAUTH ADD and XAUTH REMOVE commands to add entries to or delete entries from an X authority file. If you have created a display device (using the SET DISPLAY command), you can specify the device name on the xauth command line to insert or remove entries related to the display device. Typically, the X authority file entry for a display device corresponds to the display server specified by the SET DISPLAY command. However, if the SET DISPLAY command specifies that a proxy server be used, the file entry pertains to that proxy server. For example, the following X authority file has a single entry for the LOCAL transport on node ZEPHYR. To use the same authorization key for the DECnet transport and to specify that Kerberos be used when connecting to remote node HUBBUB, you could add the following entries to the X authority file UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH: $ XAUTH -f UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH Using authority file untrusted.decw$xauth xauth> LIST local/ZEPHYR:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 xauth> ADD ::0 . cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 xauth> ADD HUBBUB::0 MIT-KERBEROS-5 "" xauth> LIST local/ZEPHYR:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 decnet/ZEPHYR::0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 decnet/HUBBUB::0 MIT-KERBEROS-5 xauth> EXIT Writing X authority file untrusted.decw$xauth Client applications running on systems in the same cluster share a single X authority file. As a result, in cluster configurations, adding an entry for the DECnet transport to the local system grants client applications running on other nodes in the cluster access to that system. To discontinue remote access to HUBBUB, you could use the XAUTH REMOVE command to remove the entry, as follows: $ XAUTH -f UNTRUSTED.DECW$XAUTH Using authority file untrusted.decw$xauth xauth> REMOVE HUBBUB::0 1 entries removed xauth> LIST local/ZEPHYR:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 decnet/ZEPHYR::0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 cfcc5ef98f9718f90154f355c0ae9f62 xauth> EXIT Writing X authority file untrusted.decw$xauth