[Coco] Network Access for my COCO

[Tim Fadden]

On 1/5/2014 3:11 PM, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, here is my inetd.conf:
>>>
>>> 6809 telnet protect banner,login,
>>> 6811,httpd,
>>>
>> looks fine.
>>
> OK, I got inetd working, kind of...   I think it was "protect"
> that was keeping it fropm working.  have to look into how that
> works and fix it.
>
> Why did I say "kind of"?  Because both my COCO console and DW4 are
> spewing error messages which must be affecting performance as that
> is a lot of wasteed cpu cycles.  Have to try to figure that out, too.
>
> But, now on to the next part.  Why call "login" directly in inetd.conf?
> Isn't that the function of "tsmon"?
>
> And then there is the comment in the sample inetd.conf: "(this
> feature may be removed in favor of a more secure coco side
> authentication solution)".  Login provides password based
> authentication.  The only problem at the moment is that the
> password is stored in the clear but that should not be a major
> obstacle.  So, what am I missing?

Check out trxlogin and trxmon.  They are substitues for login and 
tsmon.  They use encrypted passwords.

I believe I got them from the old microware archive.

Let me know if you have trouble finding them, and I will see if I can 
hunt it all done.

I haven't messed with the dw headless image, or logging in with dw. But 
I used trxlogin in my startup file, and trxmon to listen to my rs232 
pack for logins.  Also had it working to log in over the network from 
other clients.  Don't know if you have heard of sculptor, but I used it 
running on my coco and accessing it from remote terminals all the time.  
It could be set up for different terminal types etc. And used a text 
base menu system.  Also scred could be run remotely etc using the 
termset entry for the remote client.

Tim

>
> As you can see, I am more interested in the multi-user/multi-tasking
> capabilites rather than OS-9's ability to run games. Hopefully I will
> have a decent system for doing development work on soon and then we
> will see what I can come up with.  MicroEMACS anyone?  :-)  Or, how
> about a database?  Anyone here remember RIM? What about GKS for graphics?
> And I still have plans for doing a floor-turtle for use with Logo.  So
> many plans, so little time. :-)
>
> bill
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