How to secure TN3270

[Ed Cherry]

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:35:28 -0800 Helen Laurence 
<laurence at acc.fau.edu> wrote:


> When the TN3270 session opens, it's possible
> to click on the menu bar and select File - Run and from there, anyone could
> run any program they want.  We haven't been able to figure out how to
> prevent users from doing this.
> 
What tn3270 helper are you using?  Queen's University, Kingston 
Ontario Canada has two versions of qws3270 (a freeware and a $35 
shareware version).  I would recommend both of these.  You can 
find a review of them at one of several mirrors to Stroud's 
Consummate Winsock Applications page 
(http://cws.wilmington.net/sterm.html#qws3270 for the review, 
http://cws.wilmington.net/term.html for the download 
instructions) These programs don't even HAVE a File menu, so I 
think they should be fairly immune to this type of tampering.

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