Cant send UNIX commands via ARD

I have ARD, and the option to send UNIX commands is greyed out. Help?

On the client, apple menu, system preferences, sharing, Remote Management.
If allow access is set to all users, then click the options button.
else, select the user your using to connect to the client, and then click the option button.
Make sure every thing is checked.
click ok
try again on ARD.
Other things to try:
quit and re-open ARD.
delete, then and re-add the client computer from ARD.
unchecking, and then re- checking remote management on the client. (to force the service to restart)

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It’s waiting for you to type a confirmation. If you run this command on the command line normally, you’ll see the message:
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Pereference tend to be stored for the computer as a whole
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