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With RDi V7.5 come some changes to the default user ID for connection types. In previous releases when you would connect to IBM i, Linux, etc. the user ID field would be empty. Now the user ID field is pre-filled with your Windows login ID.

If your Windows login ID matches your connection login ID then this is good news and will make logging in quicker. However for those that don't have them matching, like myself, you can manually change the default user ID. Since for IBM i connection types I have the same login ID for all my machines, I changed the preference setting to be my user ID for IBM i connections from my Windows login. However for Linux connections, my ID is different on each machine, so I set the default user ID for Linux to be empty. If I had Windows or Unix connections I could easily set the default for those as well.

To change your default user ID for IBM i follow these steps:

1. Go to Windows -> Preferences.
2. Select Remote Systems.
3. Select the cell for row IBM i and column Default User ID.
4. Enter the new Default User ID you desire.
5. Click OK.

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Jan 27, 2009 6:32 PM Click to view rdean400's profile rdean400

That's nice, but it isn't the ideal.

The ideal would be to leverage the EIM infrastructure already present on the i to allow customers who have rolled out Windows Single Sign-On to use that for authenticating to connections.

This support is already present in the Java Toolbox, so it should be easier to build this.

Jan 28, 2009 5:57 AM Click to view yantzi's profile yantzi in response to: rdean400

Supporting single sign-on via EIM is on our list of requirements (and I agree that this is ideal). Like you said, the Toolbox supports it so it should be easy to do for most of the RSE. We do have our own debug server and communications protocol and will have to implement the support there as well.

Don

Mar 30, 2009 8:54 AM Click to view geetanjli's profile geetanjli

Hello, I’m a new user trying to install Majordomo on an OpenSuSE computer. I haven’t been having much luck.Everything went fine until I got to the part of the process where the wrapper config test is performed. I had been using the default user, and got an error message saying not to do that.So I created a new group called ‘majordomo’ and a user to go with it. I made sure that the group existed, and that the user has been assigned to it. I edit the Makefile to refer to the numerical IDs of the group and user that I’ve created, instead of the default values.
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