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|    Benny Pedersen to Alan Ianson    |
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|    14 Sep 21 20:03:00    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 61410180       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:153/757.3 d2d6695d       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       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 :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.13.16-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/757 154/10 203/0 124 221/0 1 226/30 227/114 229/424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/452 550 664 700 1017 230/0 150 240/1120 2100 5138 5411       SEEN-BY: 240/5824 5832 5853 249/206 317 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 2454/119 3634/24       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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