Subj : MRC access from Talisman - solution
To : All
From : Alpha
Date : Sun Feb 28 2021 11:04 am
OK, nothing ground-breaking here but I've found to way to have MRC on a
Talisman BBS. Spun up a test this AM and it works, so far :)
Essentially, I'm running a Synchronet instance on the same server as
Talisman. Synchronet can be configured to run in a kind of door server
mode, where it accepts RLOGIN connections without a password from specific
IP addresses. In this case, local. Passing the XTRN code launches a door
directly, and it's pretty seamless.
So, I installed eChicken's awesome MRC xtrn program on SBBS.
One thing to keep in mind -- Talisman can't launch a RLOGIN connection
(e.g. like Mystic/SBBS/Enigma) directly, so no worries, I cobbled
together a program to launch it (there is an existing tcp project in GO
(go-telnet) that I was able to fork and modify to add the ability to read
the user's name from the BBS dropfile, then pass the additional stuff
SBBS needs to launch MRC (e.g. username, xtrn=MRC).
Anyway, it's working on my local/dev BBS, I'll add it to The Drunken
Gamer if anyone wants to check it out.
Also happy to let other Talisman sysops just connect to my SBBS so they
don't have to run their own... I can just whitelist your IP address.
Cheers!
PS - Talisman is rad. So is SBBS.
Thanks to apam, Digital Man and eChicken for creating awesome things :)
