Hello All!

All is now working (unless some one says otherwise) as I can now log in using ssh -l bbs and ditto telnet -l bbs

Where existing bbs users can use their login name instead of bbs.

What was wrong ?

1. Had to add ssh service along side the telnet one to the mbsebbs file under xinetd.d

2. Re-install sshd and telnetd but I might well remove the later.
3. Testing for the sysop was broke as the signon script was wrong as it was set
to the default and this no doubt due to building a new distro version and forgot to amend the /etc/passwd entries for bbs users as mbse set up do not handle it - no quite reasonably - done to the sysop any way.

Adjusted the system security to allow for the lower level programs that run under mbse to execute for external services namely ssh and telnet without needing MAC details pre-stored - a hack within a hack. This is for my system which is very non standard because of some installed hardware and software.
Not so sure this one was needed but did it any way as it helps improve http and
ftp service.

So more likely than not nothing to do with the routers (for a change) but I will not bet the farm on this.

Of course no I will never get bbs visitors going online but such is life.
Now back to the getting (later by the day) programming completed some time
this quarter along with the documentation.

Thanks for all that posted about it as it was a word or two that gave me an indirect hint of where to start looking.

Vincent

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Re: mbse set up for users to log in
By: Vincent Coen to All on Fri Feb 25 2022 10:04 pm

All is now working (unless some one says otherwise) as I can now log in using
ssh -l bbs and ditto telnet -l bbs

Yay, glad to hear it all worked out :-)

Tristan.
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Vincent Coen wrote to All <=-

Of course no I will never get bbs visitors going online but such is
life. Now back to the getting (later by the day) programming completed some time this quarter along with the documentation.

Never say never. Get a BBS ad posted in BBS_ADS and who knows, you might
get a caller or two. I have a single regular caller (the other two passed
away last year, sadly) that is turning 80 this year but with his help, I
have been able to fix a lot of things.

Thanks for all that posted about it as it was a word or two that gave
me an indirect hint of where to start looking.

That's what we're here for. I'm glad you got things going.

-- Sean

... Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
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