Subj : Re: Modem/Dialup options for Mystic
To   : Zip
From : dejavu
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 13:58:46

On 16 Jun 2020, Zip said the following...
 
 Zi> Hello dejavu!
 Zi> 
 Zi> On 15 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...
 Zi>  de> Are there any native Modem/Dialup support options available for Mysti
 Zi>  de> 
 Zi>  de> I've heard some people mentioning Frontdoor, TSPSER, and several othe
 Zi>  de> I'm using Linux and I'd like it to be transparent and just work like 
 Zi>  de> PCBoard BBS did in the 90's.
 Zi> 
 Zi> I'm using mgetty which can handle incoming modem calls and also transfer
 Zi> FTN logins to e.g. ifcico for processing of incoming mail over dial-up.
 Zi> 
 Zi> The downside is that you will always get a login: prompt (albeit with an
 Zi> informative banner above it), requiring ordinary users to type in a
 Zi> username (e.g. "bbs", matching a local user account on your machine)
 Zi> before they get transferred to the BBS. The actual transfer is (at least
 Zi> in my case) made by way of a script launching telnet to a local port
 Zi> which the BBS listens on. And then the user will have to login to the
 Zi> BBS "as usual".
 Zi> 

Hey Zip!

It sounds like mgetty is working out well for you, however prompting for a
login prompt is going to be a deal breaker for me.  I would like the process
to be seamless so the user just gets presented with the Mystic login prompt.

Still question, but have you ever attempted to see if the user authentication
could be done in the background?  As long as that's possible I'm sure mgetty
would be a great solution.

 Zi> mgetty can also do some other things, e.g. handle fax calls.
 Zi> 
 Zi> I'd be glad to share my configs if you would go the mgetty way. :)
 Zi> 
 Zi> Best regards
 Zi> Zip
 Zi> 
 Zi> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
 Zi>  * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
 * Origin: 1984 BBS [1984bbs.net] Washington, DC (21:3/114)

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