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  • Titan SSH!

    From apam@21:1/125 to All on Thu Apr 25 15:10:06 2019
    Hello

    Been busy today, first I got rlogin implemented. Then SSH :)

    with SSH the client connects to the server with SSH, then the server
    connects to itself with rlogin.

    I think it's similar to synchronet? rlogin takes a password as the client username field, but if someone logged in with random details to ssh,
    login would fail but it would just show a login prompt, rather than just closing the connection like magicka does.

    I'm not sure if it's any more / less secure this way.

    This is all working on Windows, I've yet to test it on Linux.

    Andrew



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  • From Va7aqd@21:4/150 to apam on Wed Apr 24 23:26:32 2019
    Re: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to All on Thu Apr 25 2019 03:10 pm

    I think it's similar to synchronet? rlogin takes a password as the client username field, but if someone logged in with random details to ssh,
    login would fail but it would just show a login prompt, rather than just closing the connection like magicka does.

    Synchronet has it's own ssh server built-in, so I don't believe it has anything
    to do with rlogin in Synchro at all. (That said, I
    am not a developer and don't know all of the mechanisms involved). Just like a
    regular openssh session, username has to be
    provided when making the ssh connection, no login prompt is ever given.

    I hope I haven't misunderstood what you were asking.
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  • From apam@21:1/125 to ALL on Thu Apr 25 16:38:32 2019
    This is all working on Windows, I've yet to test it on Linux.

    Working on Linux now too :)

    I've setup my test bbs to listen for SSH connections on port 2028

    so:
    ssh://psychosis.hopto.org:2028/
    telnet://psychosis.hopto.org:2027/

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:1/125 to Va7aqd on Thu Apr 25 16:56:56 2019
    Re: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to All on Thu Apr 25 2019 03:10 pm

    I think it's similar to synchronet? rlogin takes a password as the username field, but if someone logged in with random details to ssh login would fail but it would just show a login prompt, rather than closing the connection like magicka does.

    Synchronet has it's own ssh server built-in, so I don't believe it
    has anything
    to do with rlogin in Synchro at all. (That said, I
    am not a developer and don't know all of the mechanisms involved).
    Just like a
    regular openssh session, username has to be
    provided when making the ssh connection, no login prompt is ever
    given.

    It does use an intermediary socket, I'm just not sure how. Rob was
    talking about it when we were talking about socket sharing with doors and
    SSH.

    Titan does also have an SSH server built in, but in this case, the SSH
    server upon connect stores the username and password and uses them to
    connect to rlogin and proxies the data through. And the login prompt is
    only shown if the supplied one is wrong, rather than just disconnecting.

    Magicka (my other bbs software) uses a built in SSH server that doesn't
    do any proxying (and so doors using shared sockets don't work with SSH).
    I'm not sure about Mystic, but I'm fairly certain it can't do doors with
    socket sharing either.

    Andrew

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  • From Va7aqd@21:4/150 to apam on Thu Apr 25 00:07:38 2019
    Re: RE: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to Va7aqd on Thu Apr 25 2019 04:56 pm

    It does use an intermediary socket, I'm just not sure how. Rob was
    talking about it when we were talking about socket sharing with doors and SSH.

    Ah, cool, fair enough!
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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to apam on Fri Apr 26 19:07:18 2019
    Re: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to All on Thu Apr 25 2019 03:10 pm

    Hello

    Been busy today, first I got rlogin implemented. Then SSH :)

    with SSH the client connects to the server with SSH, then the server connects to itself with rlogin.

    I think it's similar to synchronet? rlogin takes a password as the client username field, but if someone logged in with random details to ssh,
    login would fail but it would just show a login prompt, rather than just closing the connection like magicka does.

    There's no rlogin involved with SSH connections to Synchronet. I reuse some variables for SSH connections (e.g. rlogin_name, rlogin_pass) - but the protocol is not used at all for SSH can even be disabled in the terminal server while still supporting SSH connections.

    digital man

    Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #72:
    TLS = Transport Layer Security (successor to SSL)
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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to apam on Fri Apr 26 19:09:22 2019
    Re: RE: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to Va7aqd on Thu Apr 25 2019 04:56 pm

    Re: Titan SSH!
    By: apam to All on Thu Apr 25 2019 03:10 pm

    I think it's similar to synchronet? rlogin takes a password as the username field, but if someone logged in with random details to ssh login would fail but it would just show a login prompt, rather than closing the connection like magicka does.

    Synchronet has it's own ssh server built-in, so I don't believe it
    has anything
    to do with rlogin in Synchro at all. (That said, I
    am not a developer and don't know all of the mechanisms involved).
    Just like a
    regular openssh session, username has to be
    provided when making the ssh connection, no login prompt is ever
    given.

    It does use an intermediary socket, I'm just not sure how.

    Just for doors.

    Rob was
    talking about it when we were talking about socket sharing with doors and SSH.

    Yup. There's a middle-man socket for doors that use socket-I/O, that's all. Nothing to do with rlogin.

    digital man

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  • From apam@21:1/125.2 to Digital Man on Sat Apr 27 12:33:40 2019
    Yup. There's a middle-man socket for doors that use socket-I/O, that's all. Nothing to do with rlogin.

    Ah ok!

    Thanks for the info :)

    Andrew


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