Subj : Methods for logon
To   : Kirkman
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 08 2017 03:22 pm

  Re: Methods for logon
  By: Kirkman to All on Tue Aug 08 2017 12:07 pm

 > For a while I've been using Nightfox's DDLoginMatrix mod to customize the
 > logon process on my BBS.
 >
 > However, I recently got the itch to try writing my own logon script. I
 > wanted to build something using the Frame.js, Tree.js, and Typeahead.js
 > libraries.
 >
 > Anyway, I have something now that's working, but I had a few questions for
 > DM (or whoever might know).
 >
 > The first: is there a way to do something like bbs.logon() method, but
 > without the builtin password prompt? I'm looking for a way to handle the
 > password input prompt myself. Once I had the user's input, I would pass it
 > to the logon method.

I think you're thinking of the bbs.login() method, not bbs.logon(). Currently,
the password prompt cannot be bypassed, but I could pretty easily make that
optional (e.g. do something like bbs.logon(user_name, null, password)) but it
would only work with a future v3.17 development build.

 > Second: Is there a way to do the same with the system password? If my script
 > detected the user was attempting to logon to a sysop-level account, I would
 > build my own password prompt, then pass the user's entered system password
 > to the logon() method.

Yes, I could add another optional system_password parameter to bbs.login().

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