Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:10159 comp.unix.i386:3015 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cwjcc!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Using UUCP under a BBS system??? Message-ID: <1990Feb17.211355.25962@NCoast.ORG> Date: 17 Feb 90 21:13:55 GMT References: <999@fiver.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 32 As quoted from <999@fiver.UUCP> by palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda): +--------------- | First when attracting first time users to a bbs specially a UNIX bbs you | want to make the editors very easy to use. And you want the editors to | resemble what the more popular bbs in dos type world uses. Something +--------------- Peter specifically mentioned *freeware* editors, *not* vi. As far as editors with automatic pop-up help menus, take a look at MicroEmacs sometime. (Not that I recommend dumping a novice into Emacs....) +--------------- | As for not createing an account for every user I tend to agree with | the other sysops. Not so much as a security reason. But for the fact | of system accounting. I would rather have the bbs program maintain itself | and not use UNIX to do it. A database of user account info, paths termtypes +--------------- Nobody said you had to turn on system accounting to use Unix user IDs; use the same accounting methods you would with any other Unix BBS. Way back when, I considered using Unix user names and giving each user his/her own account; I rejected it because "login:" (and "Login incorrect") are rather unfriendly... not to mention BSD-based systems and AT&T's 3B/2's which don't accept what your typical user expects for a backspace (BSD systems I've used demand DEL; 3B/2's want #. (Yes, pound sign! Welcome to the 90's, now go buy an ASR33! ;-) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@cwjcc.cwru.edu