I've set up SBBS as a dedicated Door Server, using the modopts.ini settings, locking down RLogin to just my BBS IP, passwordless auth via RLogin, etc. I'm launching doors directly using the SBBS door code--wow, works great--but I'm trying to make a couple things more seamless for my "users":
1. Is there a way to bypass the New User questions: e.g., mouse support/hit backspace/term support questions? Turn them off. i've turned off all the other questions in SCFG.
2. Is there a way NOT to give new users the option to edit their user name during signup? E.g. just accept what's passed via Rlogin?
Goal is to make the "new user signup" part as transparent as possible via RLogin, as they are already a verified user on my BBS. There will be no other way to access this particular Door Server, other than through my Door Menu, so I'm not worried about duplicate accounts, password creation, etc.
Thanks for any help, links or pointers!
(Apologies if this questions was posted on another message area a few days ago, but not sure my messages are going out, so I'm posting on Vertrauen :)
Digital Man wrote to Alpha <=-
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Alpha to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 12:17 pm
I've set up SBBS as a dedicated Door Server, using the modopts.ini settings, locking down RLogin to just my BBS IP, passwordless auth via RLogin, etc. I'm launching doors directly using the SBBS door code--wow, works great--but I'm trying to make a couple things more seamless for my "users":
1. Is there a way to bypass the New User questions: e.g., mouse support/hit backspace/term support questions? Turn them off. i've turned off all the other questions in SCFG.
Yes, set MouseTerminalQ to a blank string ("") in your ctrl/text.dat
file.
Digital Man wrote to Alpha <=-
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Alpha to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 12:17 pm
I've set up SBBS as a dedicated Door Server, using the modopts.ini settings, locking down RLogin to just my BBS IP, passwordless auth via RLogin, etc. I'm launching doors directly using the SBBS door code--wow, works great--but I'm trying to make a couple things more seamless for my "users":
1. Is there a way to bypass the New User questions: e.g., mouse support/hit backspace/term support questions? Turn them off. i've turned off all the other questions in SCFG.
Yes, set MouseTerminalQ to a blank string ("") in your ctrl/text.dat file.
Excellent! World-changing, discovering text.dat!
One last question -- is there a way to prevent the new user from having to re-type/verify the system-given password?
I've set it so users can't change their passwords in SCFG, and they'll never actually need to know it.
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questionsAlpha.. sounds like you're trying to achieve the same as I. Thanks, DM for pointing out those options in TEXT.DAT.
By: Alpha to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 12:17 pm
I've set up SBBS as a dedicated Door Server, using the modopts.ini settings, locking down RLogin to just my BBS IP, passwordless auth via RLogin, etc. I'm launching doors directly using the SBBS door code--wow, works great--but I'm trying to make a couple things more seamless for my "users":
1. Is there a way to bypass the New User questions: e.g., mouse support/hit backspace/term support questions? Turn them off. i've turned off all the other questions in SCFG.
Yes, set MouseTerminalQ to a blank string ("") in your ctrl/text.dat file.
2. Is there a way NOT to give new users the option to edit their user name during signup? E.g. just accept what's passed via Rlogin?
Yes, set EnterYourAlias to a blank string ("") in your text.dat
Goal is to make the "new user signup" part as transparent as possible via RLogin, as they are already a verified user on my BBS. There will be no other way to access this particular Door Server, other than through my Door Menu, so I'm not worried about duplicate accounts, password creation, etc.
Thanks for any help, links or pointers!
(Apologies if this questions was posted on another message area a few days ago, but not sure my messages are going out, so I'm posting on Vertrauen :)
I don't recall seeing this question anywhere else recently. <shrug>
digital man
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Re: "Door Server Mode" via RL
By: Digital Man to Alpha on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:12 pm
+1!!!!
Awesome!
However, now that I've nulled out "EnterYourAlias", I still get a text box to enter my alias, just without the text prompting me what to do.
In my text.dat:
"" 338 EnterYourAlias
I just committed a code change for you so that if you set the NewUserPasswordVerify string to "" in the text.dat, sbbs won't prompt for password verification. You'll have to update however.
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Prince to Digital Ma on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:14 pm
However, now that I've nulled out "EnterYourAlias", I still get a text box to enter my alias, just without the text prompting me what to do.
In my text.dat:
"" 338 EnterYourAlias
What version of Synchronet are you running? I can't reproduce what you're describing using the latest.
digital man
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Digital Man to Prince on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:26 pm
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Prince to Digital Ma on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:14 pm
However, now that I've nulled out "EnterYourAlias", I still get a text box to enter my alias, just without the text prompting me what to do.
In my text.dat:
"" 338 EnterYourAlias
What version of Synchronet are you running? I can't reproduce what you're describing using the latest.
digital man
This is on 3.17b SMBLIB 2.60 Compiled Jan 1 2019 04:43:05 with MSC 1800.
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Digital Man to Prince on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:26 pm
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Prince to Digital Ma on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:14 pm
However, now that I've nulled out "EnterYourAlias", I still get a text box to enter my alias, just without the text prompting me what to do.
In my text.dat:
"" 338 EnterYourAlias
What version of Synchronet are you running? I can't reproduce what you're describing using the latest.
This is on 3.17b SMBLIB 2.60 Compiled Jan 1 2019 04:43:05 with MSC 1800.
If desired (as it appears there is an interest to configure SBBS as a "Door Server", I'd be willing to write up a Wiki on start-to-finish configuration.
One last question -- is there a way to prevent the new user from having to re-type/verify the system-given password?
I've set it so users can't change their passwords in SCFG, and they'll never actually need to know it.
I just committed a code change for you so that if you set the NewUserPasswordVerify string to "" in the text.dat, sbbs won't prompt for password verification. You'll have to update however.
Alpha.. sounds like you're trying to achieve the same as I. Thanks, DM for pointing out those options in TEXT.DAT.
I just deleted my test user, and going to see how new user signup goes.
First, I get UNKNOWN USER:Prince (expected)
Then "Please configure your Extreme Arcade Account", and asked about Ext-ASCII.
If desired (as it appears there is an interest to configure SBBS as a "Door Server", I'd be willing to write up a Wiki on start-to-finish configuration.
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RL
By: Digital Man to Alpha on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:12 pm
One last question -- is there a way to prevent the new user from having to re-type/verify the system-given password?
I've set it so users can't change their passwords in SCFG, and they'll never actually need to know it.
I just committed a code change for you so that if you set the NewUserPasswordVerify string to "" in the text.dat, sbbs won't prompt for password verification. You'll have to update however.
Just to close the loop on this--works great! With editing text.dat and this update, it's about as close to "seamless" as I had ever hoped. As a door server solution, everything... just works perfectly with Synchronet.
I've spent an INORDINATE amount of time trying to get all this glued together with other systems, LOL.
Thanks again.
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Digital Man to Prince on Fri Sep 11 2020 09:42 am
If desired (as it appears there is an interest to configure SBBS as a "Door Server", I'd be willing to write up a Wiki on start-to-finish configuration.
Great idea! I was actually getting ready to do that as well -- but more from an Enigma 1/2 perspective (e.g. documenting the RLogin > SBBS part). An actual How-To for SBBS would be great for others. If you write it, I'll link to it rather than re-creating the wheel.
Here's the part I have written:
https://bit.ly/2Zr02q3
Cheers!
Just to close the loop on this--works great! With editing text.dat and this update, it's about as close to "seamless" as I had ever hoped. As a door server solution, everything... just works perfectly with Synchronet.
I've spent an INORDINATE amount of time trying to get all this glued together with other systems, LOL.
Thanks again.
What version of Synchronet are you running? I can't reproduce what you're describing using the latest.
This is on 3.17b SMBLIB 2.60 Compiled Jan 1 2019 04:43:05 with MSC 1800.
You'll need a newer build than that. https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/ commit/7e699dc416fb038d6957f88a211f27b3
digital man
If desired (as it appears there is an interest to configure SBBS as a "Door Server", I'd be willing to write up a Wiki on start-to-finish configuration.
Great idea! I was actually getting ready to do that as well -- but more from an Enigma 1/2 perspective (e.g. documenting the RLogin > SBBS part). An actual How-To for SBBS would be great for others. If you write it, I'll link to it rather than re-creating the wheel.
Here's the part I have written:
https://bit.ly/2Zr02q3
Cheers!
Re: "Door Server Mode" via RLogin questions
By: Digital Man to Prince on Fri Sep 11 2020 09:40 am
What version of Synchronet are you running? I can't reproduce what you're describing using the latest.
This is on 3.17b SMBLIB 2.60 Compiled Jan 1 2019 04:43:05 with MSC 1800.
You'll need a newer build than that. https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/ commit/7e699dc416fb038d6957f88a211f27b3
Thanks again DM. I'm pretty green when it comes to git; your instructions on the wiki seem pretty clear-cut; going to give those a try this weekend in an attempt to get the latest updates installed.
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