Subj : bbbsd
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue Sep 14 2021 20:03:00

Hello Alan!

12 Sep 2021 14:21, Alan Ianson wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 AT>>> It works fine if I just run it on port 23 for telnet like this:
 AT>>> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 telnet:23

 BP>> that should not work

 AI> That does work except it should be telnetd:23. bbbsd listens itself to 
 AI> the ports given.

yep its still a security problem

 AI>> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 ftpd:21 telnetd:23 httpd:80 rawd:24554:binkp quiet
 AI>> fork uid:alan

 BP>> add 10000+portnum, and then in xinetd proxy native ports to the bbbs
 BP>> binded ports

 AI> I suppose that could work but I have never used inet.d or xinetd with 
 AI> bbbsd.

i have added my xinetd config to below gopher server at fido.junc.eu, in case friends needs help :)

 AI> These days I use setcap to give bbbsd access to the lower ports so I 
 AI> don't need to start it as root or use sudo.

 AI>> ./bbbs 1 1 tcpip

 AI>> Or like this to log on locally..

 AI>> ./bbbs 0

 BP>> its greak to me :-)

 AI> Yes, I need to shut down my bbbsd and pollers to add a few areas that 
 AI> were added recently but I have been reluctant to do that because I 
 AI> need to remember the paramaters to restart them. ;)

yep today linode.junc.eu is gone, no need for this vps anymore, i succesfully did a dd o that server to my new home asus pn50, where i can mount it "mount -o loop -t ext4 ddimagefile /mnt" :)

on windows i had hoped for rufus would do this aswell, but non bootelble ddimages is fatal, lol

 AI>  Ttyl :-),
 AI>          Al

 AI> ... This login session: $13.99, but for you $11.88

i need to pay less on linode.com now :)


 Regards Benny

.... too late to die young :)

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