Subj : VT52 timeout
To   : Phigan
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 04 2023 20:40:42

  Re: VT52 timeout
  By: Phigan to Digital Man on Sun Jun 04 2023 04:50 pm

 >   Re: VT52 timeout
 >   By: Digital Man to Phigan on Fri Jun 02 2023 11:58 am
 >
 >  > Are you sure about that? The 30 second login inactivity timeout on
 >  > Vertrauen is only in effect for non-ANSI/PETSCII/UTF-8 terminals, so you
 >  > woudn't be shown an ANSI. The login inactivity timer on Vertrauen for
 >  > ANSI, PETSCII, and UTF-8 detected terminals is 5 minutes.
 >
 > Positive. Synchronet is detecting me as US-ASCII w/ ANSI (vs CP437 w/ ANSI)

Synchronet has no way of auto-detecting CP437 versus US-ASCII support in the terminal. Maybe you're logging in with a user account and your account is configured for US-ASCII terminal? If it can detect ANSI or RIP, it assumes CP437 support for the answer screen/login prompt *only*.

"TERM: 80x24 CP437 / ANSI" (as displayed before the login prompt)

If ANSI or RIP is not detect, it assumes US-ASCII:

"TERM: 80x24 US-ASCII / DUMB"

There is no situation in which the login prompt of Vertrauen should report
"TERM: XxX US-ASCII / ANSI", so I think you're mistaken.

 > and I'm getting the shorter inactivity upon connect, through login, right up
 > until the minesweeper stats. The Synchronet ANSI isn't shown with upper
 > ASCII characters, it replaces a lot of them with *s or @s or various
 > standard ASCII ones.

That all sounds correct for a user that logins with their account configured as US-ASCII character set. Looking at your user account:
User Settings for Phigan #659:

[T] Terminal Mode                : Auto US-ASCII / ANSI (color)

.... confirms that. Change that to CP-437 charset and you *will* get the "upper ASCII characters" displayed to you during the logon sequence.

 >  > No, the inactivity timer is (re)set (to whatever the sysop has set in
 >  > SCFG->System->Advanced->Max User Inactivity) right after the user is
 >  > authenticated.
 >
 > Well, it's not _right_ after, or I wouldn't get disconnected at that pause
 > prompt after 30 seconds. But let's see what Matt says he has set in that
 > location. On his board it happens to me even at the main menu. Same
 > settings/configuration as when connecting to Vertrauen.

I haven't been able to reproduce anything other than expected behavior here: non-ANSI/RIP/PETSCII/UTF-8 terminals are disconnected after 30 seconds of inactivity before authenticating. All other terminals (and authenticated users) are allowed 10 minutes of inactivity.
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