From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 01:15:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA25225 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:15:32 -0700 Received: from late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.254.132]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA25219 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:15:26 -0700 Received: (from eilts@localhost) by late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA13069; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:13:18 +0200 From: Hinrich Eilts Message-Id: <199507120813.KAA13069@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: Re: BBS software for FreeBSD To: amengual@cesca.es (Carles Amengual) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:13:18 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Carles Amengual" at Jul 11, 95 04:51:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1053 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I plan to put a "bbs" account in a FreeBSD box with a BBS software, so > that users can log in as BBS users and exchange messages, files, etc, > without the need for the administrator to add each user. Of course, being > "bbs" a public account, security would be a critical point. > > I looked at some BBS packages for UNIX, but don't really tried, and would > appreciate advice about which package is better or is more tested. Is > anyone having a BBS under FreeBSD here ? > Try a look at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/BBs/bbs, there are some bbs systems for Linux. If exchanging messages isn't important, you may try ft_bbs-0.4, available on freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming. It has a similar functionallity as ftp but for modems with easy usage and maximum security. Hinrich -- Hinrich Eilts Uni: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de | G i b D O S | Priv.: eilts@tor.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de | k e i n e | http://late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/user/eilts.html | C h a n c e ! |