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I am trying to figure out a way to setup linux to allow people to connect to my internal bbs by just typing in something like BBS at the login screen or even time out to the BBS from the login screen if they don't login with a username.

I don't know that much about linux yet but I know I have seen this done before.

Do you have to make an account that automatically does this or do you have to recompile the kernal or something?(hopefully not that, wouldn't know how to touch that)

Thanks for any input.

Setup RLogin on your bbs.

i don't know if this will work



but add a bbs user

username bbs, pass bbs



go into /etc/passwd and change the shell to /usr/bin/telnet

let us know if it does, or how you finally get it done :cigar:

Ahh!! Thank you, Great idea. It works perfectly. Never would have though about that.

thats pretty slick Aragon :) I would have never thought to do that

I used to play on an old board that you had to connect through linux to connect to wg and all it did was come up with a prompt enter user name and pwd and it was bbs/bbs like aragon said. it worked perfectly until the board went down for no reason and never came back.. hrm.

:cigar:

Now, just a small detail but does anyone know how to remove having to use a password and just be able to type the username and it will login without the password?

Ahh, it was easy if anyone cares to remove a password from an account.

Its just "passwd user -d"