On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:40, Marist EDU wrote: > We are currently using CheckPoint Firewall SecuRemote to provide remote > access to our road-warrior users. Really, the only access they need is > tn3270. Is anyone aware of an open source, secure way I could provide them > access. > > I ran accross a product called Mindterm which gives ssh access, but what I > need is the tn3270 terminal emulation. Ideally it would be accessable > through a web browser and not as a client. > > I wasn't sure where to post this question, if anyone has any better ideas > please feel free to let me know. I felt this list would be a good place to > start since some of you have Mainframe backgrounds and are Linux experts at > the same time.
Funny you should mention this. Now, I'm not promising anything, because we haven't announced it yet, and there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, and so on (I could discover that it phones the NSA while pouring sulfuric acid on your CPU, for instance, and make the decision not to release it), but: A proxy SSL and SSH server, that relies on a Linux guest to do the heavy lifting, is under development. We anticipate releasing it, as we have our VM installer for Debian/390, for a media charge, but as with that product as well, it's all Open Source (and, indeed, Debian-based), and you're perfectly free to implement it yourself if you'd rather. Basically, there are two components: something to tunnel the port back from the VM stack to a Linux guest, and the actual crypto implementation on Linux. It's not hard to do. If all goes according to plan, in a short time, it will be very very easy to do. We don't have any plans to make it web-accessible. Instead, it looks like something that speaks SSH waiting on port 22 of the VM stack, and something that speaks telnet-over-SSL waiting on port 992. It's merely an implmentation detail that the "something" is really a Linux image, when you get right down to it. Adam
