From: spj@ukelele.gcr.com (Guru Aleph_Null) Subject: Re: BBS package Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 03:22:18 GMT
accsah@vaxa.hofstra.edu (DEATH TO THE CLIPPER PROJECT) writes:
>In article <1993Sep7.062330.10506@black.toppoint.de>, kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) writes:
>> IMHO a BBS setup for UNIX should consist mainly of two parts.
>>
>> The first is the BBS program in form of a users shell with
>> integrated news and mail users agent. Such a program should
>> utilize native UNIX news and mail transport agents and not try
>> to implement a propietary data format.
>The only problem I see with that is it defeats the purpose of the BBS.
>If a person chooses to run a BBS for UNIX, it's usually because they don't
>want the people to get a shell, and also for ease of use. Many people are
>accustomed to a 'BBS' type interface, and not to a UNIX shell.
Its not a Unix shell, its a "BBS-Shell".. (which is what I'm working
on, user logins exec a perl script instead of a shell... by the way,
work was slowed down since I upgraded to SLS 1.03, and a 1M TVGA8900CL
card... :))
>A BBS allows the SysAdmin to give people an easy interface where they don't
>have to be bothered with accounts, and other functions.
This is a problem, I haven't figured out an easy way for the BBS to
create new accounts on the fly. I guess it may have to do something
like check for a specific login name or something. That's something to
look into, in the future.
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