Century Software, Inc., has had a request for RSA SecurID support in TinyTERM Plus. This has not been implemented thus far.

CR 713

The SSH protocol includes an option to display an introductory message or “banner” prior to login. This is not yet implemented in TinyTERM Plus.

CR 712

Century Software, Inc., has had a request for keyboard-interactive authentication for SSH. This would allow standard login and password prompts over an SSH connection. It has not been implemented thus far.

CR 698

The SSH2 protocol includes the ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax options. The sshd_config man page describes both:

ClientAliveInterval
Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the client, sshd will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response from the client. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the client. This option applies to protocol version 2 only.

ClientAliveCountMax
Sets the number of client alive messages which may be sent without sshd receiving any messages back from the client. If this threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent, sshd will disconnect the client, terminating the session. It is important to note that the use of client alive messages is very different from TCPKeepAlive. The client alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive option enabled by TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.

TinyTERM Plus responds to the keepalive packets sent when ClientAliveInterval is non-zero. Thus, it does not automatically get disconnected when idle.

CR 653, added in version 4.8.1

On Solaris 8, TERM gives the error, “Cannot open device” when connecting to a tty port. This works properly on earlier versions of Solaris. Changing the port permissions does not help, nor does starting TERM with the -i command-line parameter.

Century Software, Inc., has had a request to add an option to port forwarding that would allow the remote system to assign TCP ports dynamically. Currently port forwarding can only use assigned TCP ports.

CR 643

With TERM for HP-UX, if you specify a .con file on the command line:

term connection.con

it does not successfully connect via modem. You get the error, “Modem not responding” instead. The modem responds normally if the .con file is not specified.

CR 633

Several IBM RS/6000 models have two processors, a primary CPU and a service processor. When the system is powered down, but still plugged in, the service processor remains active. An IBM3151 terminal can be plugged into this processor via serial cable and used to manage the system.

TinyTERM plugged into the same port does not work until the RS/6000 is booted. At that point, TinyTERM works correctly.

CR 605

Century Software, Inc., has had a report that checking the Establish connection on open box in Session Properties causes TinyTERM to generate a 10060 connection error. This has not been duplicated.

CR 600

TERM for Linux 6.28 gives either a segmentation fault or “unknown service family” when connecting via telnet. This is corrected with separate builds for the different Linux distros. Here are the download links:

Debian
SUSE
Red Hat Enterprise

One of these should work for any current Linux distro.

CR 585, segmentation fault
CR 606, unknown service family