[WinPartners] SecureCRT 4.1.4 Release Announcement

[Bryant C. Vernon]

Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu,
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu
Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu 
From: Software Release Team
Subject: Secure CRT 4.1.4 Release Announcement 

Good Afternoon, 

I am pleased to announce the release of Secure CRT 4.1.4. Secure CRT 4.1.4
is the latest version of Van Dyke's secure terminal emulation program. 

Secure CRT allows users to securely connect to MIT (and other) servers using
the SSH2 protocol. This latest version of Secure CRT includes the ability to
authenticate with Kerberos 5 tickets.

New Features and Improvements to Secure CRT 4.1.4 include: 

-GSSAPI Support / Kerberos 5 Authentication
-Improved Integration with Secure FX 
-X11 forwarding: Encrypt X11 Windows sessions to secure remote X
applications that are being displayed on the local PC 
-Emacs mode: If you commonly use Emacs, you can configure your session to
use the ALT key as the meta key. 
-32,000-line scrollback 
-XTerm Emulation

For a complete list of new features, please reference the Secure CRT 4.1.4
features page: 
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/features_1.html.

Known Issues:
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-If the administrator deletes the MSI's for SecureCRT and SecureFX after
installing, regular user accounts will not be able to run the programs.
Instead, an error is given.

Solution:
After downloading SecureCRT and SecureFX, create the directory
C:\Installers, copy the MSI installers SecureCRT and SecureFX to the
directory and install from there.  This will allow any user who has an
account on the machine to access the programs.

-Users within the win.mit.edu domain may be unable to launch SecureCRT or
SecureFX. If you encounter an error when attempting to launch either of
these programs, please contact your container administrator. Container
administrators can opt in early to the next win.mit.edu release (4.1) which
addresses this issue.

How to Obtain:
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You can download SecureCRT 4.1.4 from the MIT Software Release Page:
http://web.mit.edu/software/win.html.


Getting Help:
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The SecureCRT 4.1.4 page is located at:
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=623

If you have a question or need assistance, please contact the Computing Help
Desk at computing-help at mit.edu or x3-1101.
All the Best, 

Bryant C. Vernon
Secure CRT 4.1.4 Product Release Coordinator


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Bryant C. Vernon 
Product Release Coordinator
Software Release Team 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/swrt
t: 617-253-5103
f: 617-258-8736
m: bcvernon at mit.edu