Added November 2025
-ateonly
The switch -ateonly causes A-Shell to abort if not being launched from an ATE connection. This is likely to be most useful in an ATSD environment exposed to the Internet without the benefit of a VPN, providing simple means of minimizing the trouble caused by port scanners and other unauthorized agents trying to connect to your system.
Unlike in the Linux environment, with ATSD it's up to you to handle the login, which can't occur until A-Shell has instantiated a job for the connection. The -ateonly switch allows A-Shell to terminate connections from non-ATE workstations before assigning a job to them.
History
2025 November, A-Shell 7.0.1781: Function added to A-Shell
