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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® The first maintenance releases of the SecureCRT®, SecureFX®, and ClientPack 6.5 clients and the VShell® 3.6 server were delivered in January. But more exciting for some is the news that SecureCRT for OS X development has progressed to the early alpha testing stage. This month's tip demonstrates how to use VShell subconfiguration to set up alternate authentication requirements. Pre-beta testing has begun for ongoing SecureCRT and SecureFX feature development. In the online forums, members discussed using the /T command-line option to open tabbed SecureCRT sessions, and a forum member posted comments on Unicode improvements added to SecureCRT 6.5.1. ------------- 1. Tip: VShell Subconfiguration Revised and Expanded
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------------------------------------------------------------------------- For VShell administrators who have special groups that need different VShell server settings, subconfiguration offers a way to override global settings for particular users, groups, or locations. For example, subconfiguration can be used to raise the level of authentication required for admin access or for users connecting from an external network. The online tip for subconfiguration has recently been updated to focus on its application to authentication. It explains, with examples and screenshots, how to subconfigure the Authentication Allowed and Authentication Required settings, as well as how to generate the XML subconfiguration file using the VShellConfig utility. Read the updated subconfiguration tip, visit the VanDyke Software website support section. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Development of SecureCRT for OS X (Apple Mac) continues to progress. We have begun very limited alpha testing with a small group of users. If that testing goes well, the alpha will be expanded to a wider group of users. There will be an announcement in the newsletter when the OS X version is available for public beta testing, which will likely be later this year. If you would like to be notified when SecureCRT for OS X is available for public beta testing, please e-mail Maureen Jett at ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VanDyke Software Development continues to seek users to test new capabilities in pre-beta releases. The latest SecureCRT feature is a new way to pass arguments to scripts. It allows arguments to be specified for scripts that are mapped to a key or a button on the button bar. For SecureFX there is a new capability to try the external server address if a PASV data connection cannot be made using the internal server address. If you would like to test and provide feedback on either new feature, please send e-mail to ---------------------------------------------------------------- Last month we briefly mentioned keyword highlighting in SecureCRT 6.5. This feature has some interesting applications for you to consider. For instance, you could use it to:
The following options are used to configure keyword highlighting:
Note that because keyword highlighting processes remote session output in real time, it can affect display performance. To download SecureCRT 6.5 official and try keyword highlighting, go to the SecureCRT download page. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum member Balto asked how to open a session from the command line in a tab rather than a new window. Opening sessions in tabs requires an additional command-line option, /T, before the sessionname option, like this: If you have had problems with Unicode line drawing characters in
past versions of SecureCRT, try SecureCRT 6.5 and let us know your
experience on the Unicode/UTF-8 thread. Maintenance releases of SecureCRT 6.5.1, SecureFX 6.5.1, and VanDyke ClientPack 6.5.1, as well as VShell server 3.6.1, were made available January 21 to address issues in the 6.5 and 3.6 releases. Please visit the web page below to view history files
and download the latest software. SecureCRT 6.5 –Tab status indicator options, real-time keyword highlighting, drag-and-drop transfers from Windows Explorer, Windows 7 taskbar integration, revised button bar. SecureFX 6.5 – New tabbed main window, SCP transfer protocol support, parent folder ".." navigation. ClientPack 6.5 –VRALib, a new .NET and COM-compliant component scripting SSH2 connections in Windows. VShell 3.6 server – Limit access to SSH2 commands and services by public key, set environment variables via SSH2, audit vshelld events with Solaris BSM. Here is a list of the latest
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