Subj : gameserver...
To   : Martin Kazmaier
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 22:43:29

  Re: gameserver...
  By: Martin Kazmaier to Digital Man on Sat Apr 19 2025 04:45 pm

 > * In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Digital Man said:
 >
 >  > Re: gameserver... By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Fri Apr 18 2025 11:21
 >  > am
 >
 >  >  > If I use telnetdoor to connect to a gameserver running sbbs, the first
 >  > time
 >  >  > a user connects they are asked for a user name and location.  After
 >  > that
 >  >  > first time everything works as expected.  Also, the password can't be
 >  > the
 >  >  > same as the user name. Is there sny way around this? I think sbbs
 >  >  > and mystic systems don't experience those issues. I am specifying
 >  >  > the xtrn.code properly.
 >
 >  > I'm not familiar with "telnetdoor". Do you not have the option of
 >  > specifying the RLogin parameters (including the client-name, which
 >  > Synchronet uses for the user password)? -- digital man (rob)
 >
 > I can only specify username, password and term type.
 >
 > It's a mannsoft door to allow 32 bit BBSes without native telnet or rlogin
 > support to do those features.  EleBBS has telnet support, but it's not
 > documented very well.  Same with IRC.  I use external doors for both.
 > -YUsername -XPassword -Ztermtype are the options.  As I said, the first time
 > I use this method to connect, it requires me to enter a user name and
 > location from the new user form.  Every time after that, it works as
 > designed.

Those prompts sound like the new user registration experience of Synchronet and is configurable by the sysop.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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