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Where can I find my LIVE session secret key

When connecting to a LIVE Shared Session, you need a secret key in order to authenticate yourself as a valid user. The secret key appears when the creator of the master session launches the session for the first time.

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If you happen to lose the key, you can get the secret key by doing the following

  1. Open a terminal in your currently running shared session
  2. run the command xauth list
    You will see text such as this
    username@hostname:~> xauth list
    localhost:1004  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  d9386d2f2c3c119fdec8f69023e59720
    localhost    :1004  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  d9386d2f2c3c119fdec8f69023e59720
    hostname    /unix:1004  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  d9386d2f2c3c119fdec8f69023e59720
  3. In this example the current session is hostname/unix:1004
  4. The secret key is the large hexadecimal number on the right hand side of the line.
  5. Enter this key in when users launch their slave sessions

enter_secret_key.jpg

See Also:
LIVE Session Sharing
Creating a LIVE Master Session
Creating a LIVE Slave Session

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