Subj : Telnet confusion
To   : Digital Man
From : Carpetgunk
Date : Tue Apr 08 2025 15:32:53

  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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