[CentOS] Terminal settings

Thu May 1 18:36:11 UTC 2014
Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com>

Ok, so if I understand it correctly, it's the client that doesn't support
UTF, correct?


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Reindl Harald
> > <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:
> >
> >> what is SecureCRT and who needs that?
> >>
> >> what's wrong with the ordiany OpenSSh client available on any
> >> sane system which supports UTF8, colors and what not out of
> >> the box?
> >>
> > Right, one key information missing: I'm working on a Windows machine,
> > using SCRT to connect to remote servers - I have no choice, it's company
> policy.
> > I should also point out that this only happens on newer systems. I have
> > some old Fedora and even Redhat machines that don't do that, but I also
> > suspect that because they are older machines that have not been (or can
> > not be) upgraded to more recent OS's, that they don't have UTF
> capability.
>
> A suggestion? Your company could save money (I see SecureCRT is
> proprietary) - show them putty. It's *very* solid, and lightweight, and
> free.
>
> And if you need more security, say, the way we do here (US federal gov't
> agency), and some things *require* that we use our PIV cards (for those
> civilians in the military sector, the same thing's called a CAC), we use
> Reisacher's fork, putty-cac. It's really solid. And saves budget....
>
>          mark
>
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