Subj : Telnet confusion
To   : Digital Man
From : Carpetgunk
Date : Tue Apr 08 2025 03:32 pm

 Re: Telnet confusion
 By: Digital Man to Carpetgunk on Tue Apr 08 2025 01:55 pm

Hey Rob! Thanks for the replies!

>  > Hey all--working on setting up sbbs for the first time in moons. I'm
>  > having trouble enabling SSL telnet at the SBBS config level.
>
> Synchronet doesn't support SSL telnet. What gave you the impression that it
> did?

Ha! I don't know. It's been a few decades since I was a SysOp or a user. I wrongly assumed it was a standard.

>
>  > I can't seem to find
>  > notes, documents, or mention of explicitly enabling it
>
> It's not supported.

Yep, got it.

>
>  >, and manually trying
>  > to modify sbbs.ini or services.ini using telgate
>
> Why would use telgate to modify those files? That makes no sense.

I thought that was the telnet service. I'm on the same page now :)

>  > And more broadly, I
>  > don't know if I want/need to enable Telnet SSL, RLogin, SSH, and/or the
>  > web side of things.
>
> No, you don't need "the web side of things" at all for the terminal server
> operations.

I worded this poorly. I was wondering if I need to [should] enable any particular type of connection method, terminal and/or web, to accommodate users of today. Are most folks connecting certain ways more than others? I guess I could get around to enabling all methods, but I'm still curious how most folks use BBS nowadays.

Thanks again!

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