System Administrator Features

The FacetWin DT terminal emulator has a few options that are considered “system administrator features.” These features are designed to allow the system administrator to limit users’ ability to disconnect abnormally or make unwanted changes to their terminal emulation configurations. These features are all implemented by editing the .fwt files of the affected configurations with a text editor like Notepad and adding the lines described below. By adding these lines to a user’s “Add a serial or dial-up connection.fwt” configuration file, you can insure that they are propagated to all new configurations that the user may create.

noclosetilldisc=YES

This prevents the user from closing a terminal emulator window with the “close window” button on the title bar (the “x”) before exiting his application. This is to prevent abnormal termination of a host/server application.

nouserdisconnect=YES

This prevents the user from disconnecting a terminal emulation session with the File/Disconnect menu command, the Disconnect button on the property sheet connection tab or the Disconnect button on the toolbar. Therefore, this feature also prevents abnormal termination of a host/server application. When both the noclosetilldisc and nouserdisconnect features are enabled, the user must normally exit his application before the connection with the server will be terminated.

nullmenu=YES

This causes a menu to be displayed that only has the help option. If a session is configured to have the toolbar turned off, and then this feature is enabled, the user will not be able to change anything about the configuration of the session other than to move or resize the window.