Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is fantastic!
Not that.. IRC I downloaded Gryphon's IRC program and the modified one by Stackfault. Gryphon's gets me to a handle prompt then gives me a Python
Error, lin line 964 and line 600 in print screen, says the my handle not in list... Any ideas?? Or is there another one to use?? Thanks...

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Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is

[snip]

At one point I set up BitchX to run non-privileged from my bbs user and to
take the logged-in user on the BBS's handle as the username. It worked pretty well, if I recall, but only if usernames were one word :P In any case, that's an option, and a pretty good one IMO.

OF course, this is dependent on using linux...

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On 04-10-19 22:11, Bucko wrote to All <=-

Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is
fantastic! Not that.. IRC I downloaded Gryphon's IRC program and the modified one by Stackfault. Gryphon's gets me to a handle prompt then gives me a Python Error, lin line 964 and line 600 in print screen,
says the my handle not in list... Any ideas?? Or is there another one
to use?? Thanks...

I couldn't get the Python IRC client to work on my Mystic system either. I ended up setting up a menu option on my Sunchronet board and using its native IRC client instead.


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On 04-11-19 01:25, esc wrote to Bucko <=-

Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is

[snip]

At one point I set up BitchX to run non-privileged from my bbs user and
to take the logged-in user on the BBS's handle as the username. It
worked pretty well, if I recall, but only if usernames were one word :P
In any case, that's an option, and a pretty good one IMO.

OF course, this is dependent on using linux...

Hmm, that's an interesting idea. Would work for me. :)


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At one point I set up BitchX to run non-privileged from my bbs user a to take the logged-in user on the BBS's handle as the username. It worked pretty well, if I recall, but only if usernames were one word In any case, that's an option, and a pretty good one IMO.

Hmm, that's an interesting idea. Would work for me. :)

Ok, let me try setting it up again and I'll get back to you what the steps were. Are you able to give me the server and default channel you'd want the users to join?

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On 04-11-19 11:11, esc wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Ok, let me try setting it up again and I'll get back to you what the
steps were. Are you able to give me the server and default channel
you'd want the users to join?

I'd have to dig through the configs on my Synchronet board to get the details, but in the context of this discussion, I'd say it was the Mystic IRC server and channel. I have both Mystic and Synchronet IRC servers (as separate menu items) configured on Synchronet.

BitchX under Mystic would be a nice to have. :)


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Re: IRC...
By: esc to Bucko on Thu Apr 11 2019 01:25 am

At one point I set up BitchX to run non-privileged from my bbs user and to take the logged-in user on the BBS's handle as the username. It worked pretty well, if I recall, but only if usernames were one word :P In any case, that's an option, and a pretty good one IMO.

<Same issue with Synchronet> Curious, what was the command syntax you used to pass to BitchX? I compiled BitchX (STILL my all-time fav IRC Client) and I am planning on using BitchX with Enigma BBS to connect to the IRC. I've looked (not REALLY hard...yet) for the commands you can pass with BitchX, but haven't found anything yet...


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KrUpTiOn
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<Same issue with Synchronet> Curious, what was the command syntax you used to pass to BitchX? I compiled BitchX (STILL my all-time fav IRC Client) and I am planning on using BitchX with Enigma BBS to connect to the IRC. I've looked (not REALLY hard...yet) for the commands you can pass with BitchX, but haven't found anything yet...

I can't remember and am in east africa right now with really terrible comms. I'll follow up soon with an answer...can you ping me again in a month-ish if you don't hear from me mfirst?

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On 10 Apr 2019 &4, Bucko said the following...

Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is
fantastic! Not that.. IRC I downloaded Gryphon's IRC program and the modified one by Stackfault. Gryphon's gets me to a handle prompt then gives me a Python Error, lin line 964 and line 600 in print screen, says the my handle not in list... Any ideas?? Or is there another one to
use?? Thanks...

I would recommend using StakFault's version. It is more advanced and has more bug fixes.

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On 11 Apr 2019 &4, esc said the following...

Hi All... Anyone using a IRC program with their systems? MRC is

[snip]

At one point I set up BitchX to run non-privileged from my bbs user and
to take the logged-in user on the BBS's handle as the username. It
worked pretty well, if I recall, but only if usernames were one word :P
In any case, that's an option, and a pretty good one IMO.

OF course, this is dependent on using linux...

Before creating irc.mpy, I used irssi as a door for IRC. I patterened a lot
of irc.mpy's behavior on it.

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On 15 Apr 2019, Gryphon said the following...

I would recommend using StakFault's version. It is more advanced and has more bug fixes.

Thanks for the info Gryphon.. I guess I am doing something wrong with it but
I will get it going.. Thanks..

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I can't remember and am in east africa right now with really terrible comms. I'll follow up soon with an answer...can you ping me again in a month-ish if you don't hear from me mfirst?

Hey guys, I can't verify that this works 100% and blocks users from doing elevated things. But here's something to test, and I'd appreciate the help (since I am a bit hamstrung testing for now).

I tried both scrollz and bitchx.

First I'll go over how each were compiled.

ScrollZ:
Grab latest source, untar it.
Run ./configure
Figure out your BBS user account's UID in /etc/passwd
Edit <scrollz>/include/irc.h and make #define DAEMON_UID <your_UID>
make, sudo make install. A quick look at the code suggests this'll result in a non-privileged account. I'm not...totally confident, though.

BitchX:
Grab latest source, untar it.
Run ./configure
Edit include/config.h
At the very bottom, add a line:
#define RESTRICTED
Save it, make, sudo make install

Ok, now run it as a stdio door. This is my script that I use to run it. Note that the username portion should get passed from the BBS somehow.
<irc.sh>
#!/bin/bash
IRCNICK=$1
IRCNAME=$1
IRCSERVER="irc.Prison.NET irc.mzima.net irc.servercentral.net irc.choopa.net irc.colosolutions.net"
IRCSERVERS="irc.Prison.NET irc.mzima.net irc.servercentral.net irc.choopa.net irc.colosolutions.net"
TERM="linux-vt"
IRCHOST="montereybbs.com"
export IRCNICK IRCNAME IRCSERVERS IRCSERVER TERM IRCHOST #/usr/local/bin/scrollz -q
#/usr/local/bin/BitchX -q

Uncomment the one you want to run, this script launches either one. Something that's missing is auto-channel-join. It also doesn't handle long user names or ones with special characters or spaces...a more clever way would be a forced nick registration.

Also, don't steal my IRCHOST :D

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On Monday, April 15th esc was heard saying...

I can't remember and am in east africa right now with really terrible comms. I'll follow up soon with an answer...can you ping me again in a month-ish if you don't hear from me mfirst?
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Will do bro, wish you luck and hope all is well with you..



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