Subj : Re: Game Server
To   : IB Joe
From : Todd Yatzook
Date : Tue Jan 07 2025 12:15 am

On 06 Jan 2025, IB Joe said the following...
 
 IJ> On 06 Jan 2025, Todd Yatzook said the following...
 IJ> 
 IJ>  TY> 
 IJ>  TY> That's what DoorParty is running on now. Still requires a bit of work
 IJ>  TY> get everything smoothly running, but the proof is in the pudding. =)
 IJ>  TY> 
 IJ> 
 IJ> I wasn't looking for a great deal of work.  I swore to God you running
 IJ> SBBS, still and or always.
 IJ> 
 IJ> Thanx
 IJ> 
 IJ> BTW, I'm making the change to Linux I don't want to bite off more than I
 IJ> can chew.

I switched to Mystic a couple months ago? Sometime around then. I've wanted to 
switch for a long time, just recently figured out how to get it going.

And nah, it's not a ton of work. 

The connect.mps script g00r00 provides in a default install just needs a bit of 
tweaking to replace certain characters in passwords that might be sent that 
will screw up account creation on RLogin, another tweak in that script that 
limits the password character length sent through RLogin to 25 or less, since 
Mystic can only handle that length, and I created a really simple and quick MPY 
script at the ANSI detect string that will disconnect a user if the password 
given is different than what the account needs so it doesn't automatically kick 
them to the Mystic username/password login on a bad password attempt.


Oh, and some people will connect via RLogin without a password, so in order to 
keep things smooth I have the connect script also create a default password for 
them and also use that password afterwards.

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