Subj : Telnet confusion
To   : Carpetgunk
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 08 2025 13:55:56

  Re: Telnet confusion
  By: Carpetgunk to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 01:08 pm

 > 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?

 > I can't seem to find
 > notes, documents, or mention of explicitly enabling it

It's not supported.

 >, and manually trying
 > to modify sbbs.ini or services.ini using telgate

Why would use telgate to modify those files? That makes no sense.

 > sends me into a loop of failure.

I'm not surpised. :-)

 > Can someone point me in the right direction?

Synchronet doesn't support SSL telnet (more appropriately called "telnets" or Telnet over TLS).

 > 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.
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