There are many times when it's useful to apply session setting changes to all of your sessions. You may need to change a commonly applied setting like firewall configuration, or you may want to make a single adjustment when your organization's servers are upgraded from SSH1 to SSH2. In this tip you'll learn how to apply session setting changes to all your sessions by editing the default session.

Copying Settings to Multiple Sessions in SecureCRT 5.0 and SecureFX 3.0

In SecureCRT 5.0, CRT 5.0, and SecureFX 3.0, you can now change session parameters globally by editing the default session in the "Global Options" dialog and selecting the option to apply the changes to all sessions (see the steps below). Applying a session setting change to all sessions can be a quick way to globally change a firewall configuration or implement a switch in protocol from SSH1 to SSH2.

A VanDyke forum member used this technique to quickly apply new keys bindings to "MENU_TAB_PREV" and "MENU_TAB_NEXT" to a large number of existing session. Read the thread to find out more. (Note: This change can also be made on a per-session basis in the Session Options / Terminal / Emulation / Mapped Keys dialog).

Any changes to the default session setting will apply to all new sessions created after the change. If you don't want the new setting to remain the default, simply change it back after you apply your change.

Here are the steps you use to edit the default settings and then apply these setting to all sessions.

Step 1: Edit the default settings. Go to the "Global Options" dialog, choose the"Default Session" page, and click the "Edit Default Settings…" button.

Step 2: Edit the default settings. When the "Session Options - Default" dialog appears, edit only the options that you want to change in all sessions. In this example, the firewall has been changed. If you click the "Cancel" button, all changes will be ignored. If you click the "OK" button, then a confirmation dialog will appear.

Step 3: Confirm or cancel the changes. When the confirmation dialog appears, select "Yes" to apply the changes you made to the default session, or "No" to cancel the changes.

Note that protocol specific options such as "port" will only change for sessions that use the same protocol. All other options will affect all sessions. Also, all future new sessions will have these default settings.

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