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 wrong
ly 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 particula
r 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 ar
ound to enabling all methods, but I'm still curious how most folks use BBS nowad
ays.
Thanks again!
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