Subj : Re: Nightmares / Dreams
To   : 2twisty
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Apr 02 2022 11:57:00

-=> 2twisty wrote to Gamgee <=-

 2t> On 02 Apr 2022, Gamgee said the following...
 Ga> I do keep my BBS telnet access on 23.  The reason I don't want to do
 Ga> that with SSH/22 is because I want to use SSH/22 for internal/LAN access
 Ga> to the BBS machine.  I don't have any need for local telnet/23 access.

 2t> Then on your router, forward 22 external to 2222 internal.  Thats
 2t> what I do.

Okay, I can see that being handy.

 2t> I do the same for telnet on 2323, this way the BBS software
 2t> doesn't need root access of any kind to open those ports.

Yes.  There are other ways to avoid that though, too.  With Synchronet, 
I start the BBS with this command:  'sudo -E ./sbbs syslog', run as a 
normal user.  In the Synchronet config, there is a place to define the 
user/group that the BBS runs as.  This allows the BBS to open the ports 
(because of the 'sudo'), but then immediately fall back to running as a 
normal user.  Synchronet can also be compiled with the 'setcap' command 
to grant the ability for the binary to open ports as a normal user.


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