I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this an issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

I imagine not many people hit Gopher these days, but I'm curious.
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Re: Gopher missing 'Guest' Account
By: Android8675 to all on Mon Mar 04 2019 10:43 am

I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this an issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

I didn't think you could change the name of the Synchronet guest account. Or rather, I thought Synchronet always had a default guest account with the name 'guest' or something? I think that's how Synchronet supports anonymously loading web pages and anonymous FTP browsing, etc.. You shouldn't have a non-standard guest account name if you want to allow some anonymous browsing.

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Re: Gopher missing 'Guest' Account
By: Android8675 to all on Mon Mar 04 2019 10:43 am

I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this an issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

Or change this line in exec/gopherservice.js:

if(!login("guest"))
log(LOG_WARNING,"!WARNING: NO GUEST ACCOUNT CONFIGURED");

But you're likely to have other issues too with servers/services that need a guest account.


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Re: Gopher missing 'Guest' Account
By: Nightfox to Android8675 on Mon Mar 04 2019 12:31 pm

I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to
missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this
an issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

I didn't think you could change the name of the Synchronet guest account. Or rather, I thought Synchronet always had a default guest account with the name 'guest' or something? I think that's how Synchronet supports anonymously loading web pages and anonymous FTP browsing, etc.. You shouldn't have a non-standard guest account name if you want to allow some anonymous browsing.

Well as they say on Reddit... TIL (Today I Learned)

Yeah, just renamed the guest account, when people land on my webpage it just says "bit" is browsing instead of "Guest". Never been an issue until Gopher, and I just happened to catch it on my sbbsctrl to even know it was an issue. Was thinking that Gopher service looks for "Guest" username instead of just using the account with the Guest flag.

I don't mind changing it back, just wondering if I really have too... So, question stands.
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Re: Gopher missing 'Guest' Account
By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Mon Mar 04 2019 10:06 pm

I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to
missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this an
issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

Or change this line in exec/gopherservice.js:

if(!login("guest"))
log(LOG_WARNING,"!WARNING: NO GUEST ACCOUNT CONFIGURED");

But you're likely to have other issues too with servers/services that need a guest account.

Thanks DM, I should of poked in there first before asking. I'll have to find a gopher client to play around with it.
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Re: Gopher missing 'Guest' Account
By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Mon Mar 04 2019 10:06 pm

I got an error saying someone failed to connect to Gopher due to
missing 'Guest' account. My guest account is called 'Bit', is this an
issue, should I just make another 'Guest' account?

Or change this line in exec/gopherservice.js:

if(!login("guest"))
log(LOG_WARNING,"!WARNING: NO GUEST ACCOUNT CONFIGURED");

But you're likely to have other issues too with servers/services that need a guest account.

Thanks DM, I should of poked in there first before asking. I'll have to find a gopher client to play around with it.

For windows ... http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows

for Linux https://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo

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