Subj : bbbsd
To : Alan Ianson
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue Sep 14 2021 08:03 pm
Hello Alan!
12 Sep 2021 14:21, Alan Ianson wrote to Benny Pedersen:
AT>>> It works fine if I just run it on port 23 for telnet like this:
AT>>> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 telnet:23
BP>> that should not work
AI> That does work except it should be telnetd:23. bbbsd listens itself to
AI> the ports given.
yep its still a security problem
AI>> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 ftpd:21 telnetd:23 httpd:80 rawd:24554:binkp quiet
AI>> fork uid:alan
BP>> add 10000+portnum, and then in xinetd proxy native ports to the bbbs
BP>> binded ports
AI> I suppose that could work but I have never used inet.d or xinetd with
AI> bbbsd.
i have added my xinetd config to below gopher server at fido.junc.eu, in case friends needs help :)
AI> These days I use setcap to give bbbsd access to the lower ports so I
AI> don't need to start it as root or use sudo.
AI>> ./bbbs 1 1 tcpip
AI>> Or like this to log on locally..
AI>> ./bbbs 0
BP>> its greak to me :-)
AI> Yes, I need to shut down my bbbsd and pollers to add a few areas that
AI> were added recently but I have been reluctant to do that because I
AI> need to remember the paramaters to restart them. ;)
yep today linode.junc.eu is gone, no need for this vps anymore, i succesfully did a dd o that server to my new home asus pn50, where i can mount it "mount -o loop -t ext4 ddimagefile /mnt" :)
on windows i had hoped for rufus would do this aswell, but non bootelble ddimages is fatal, lol
AI> Ttyl :-),
AI> Al
AI> ... This login session: $13.99, but for you $11.88
i need to pay less on linode.com now :)
Regards Benny
... too late to die young :)
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