On 11 Jan 24  04:52:32, Jas Hud said the following to Nick Andre:

JH> yeah it's pretty rare but it does happen.  It's usually when a semi tech sa
JH> who doesn't know much about bbses is invited onto a bbs. those are the guys
JH> that ask why no ssh access.

And I would be politely asking them why SSH access.

I'm not jumping through hoops to provide a false sense of security which is 
what SSH is on a board. I see now on another Net that the amusing topic has
morphed into now providing users an end-to-end encrypted BBS session.

So... I'm expected to provide an encrypted protocol and now an encrypted
session I cannot even see at the console. Get real, whose system is it anyway?

The person that wants SSH on a board is the same person who happily pays for
his groceries with an Rfid debit card. He cares only for the kewl-factor...

JH> aaaaand linux generally runs servers well, and bbses are now servers. so

Not all Linux Sysops are arrogant. But some are and those are the ones who
conjure up this type of sysadmin silliness. Because they can, they must.

Over time it all because noise.... unoriginal noise conjured up at least 
once a year or so. When nobody takes the bait, that Sysop vanishes.

Nick

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