Nightfox wrote to Jon Justvig <=-
BBS user accounts are separate from the system user accounts, so unless your BBS has a user with the name root, I wouldn't be worried about
that. Even if your BBS did have a user named root, that's still
separate from your system root account, and BBSes typically don't have
a way to let someone drop to your system shell anyway (unless you configure some kind of doorway to do so).
I see your point and I should know that by now. For the most part, the system would crash anytime a SSH connection was established. I guess I freaked out since it would crash the board and I wasn't used to it going to the command prompt (on my end) and thought it was seen by a user connecting by SSH. I don't know much about SSH and that's what I thought it was doing. But yeah, wheew, I might open up port 22 again for SSH at a later point.
In general I think it's good to use (or at least enable) secure
protocols like SSH to prevent people from monitoring you and your activity, although I still tend to use telnet or RLogin since that's
what most BBSes are configured for. I doubt people are very interested
in monitoring BBS activity though. I have SSH enabled on my BBS in
case there are users who want to use it - And occasionally I have seen some users logged in via SSH.
That's cool. I'm glad you have users using the SSH port and connecting to your board that way. I should have it opened too. I just need to wait it out and fix the problem that was causing the system to crash (drop to the command line) or perhaps it's a coding problem. I'm unsure at this point. I've been involved with getting my message network going so I haven't had time to pursue the SSH port issue as of late.
Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
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