Subj : Re: Anonymous SSH login
To   : Alpha
From : acn
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 11:04 am

Am 21.03.21 schrieb Alpha@21:4/158.1 in FSX_BBS:

Hallo,

A> Some people care about providing more modern security for BBSs, others
A> are ambivilant, and a few more are just downright nasty toward those who
A> care.

I might add two reasons why I don't offer SSH access to my Synchronet BBS:

1.
I would have to explore how a guest login/"new user login" etc. could be
accomplished to make it look "normal".

2.
My target audience especially includes retrocomputing people who very
often use "Wifi modems" - and I don't know a single Wifi modem (ESP8266 or
ESP32 based) that offers a SSH mode; they only offer Telnet connections.

I would really be interested in a SSH Wifi modem, but I don't know any.

So I chose to stick to Telnet access.

(Access to the Synchronet web server indeed is HTTPS only with an Apache
reverse proxy inbetween and the fTelnet connection is also using HTTPS
only, so this is a secure alternative here)

Regards,
Anna

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