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    From ACIERNO to ALL on Mon Mar 11 20:57:42 2024

    Life obligations forced me to take a step back from my BBS - CP/M Den - for a bit. First it was work obligations and then I was traveling for weeks with out my computer in tow (long story). I know this sounds crazy but now that I'm back, I cannot login!. I was sure I knew my passwords - but apparently I must have tried to be clever. Is there any way to access my BBS via the local console and reset my passwords or do I need to nuke it and start over. There are a bunch of files that I would hate to lose.

    It's Synchronet running on a raspberry pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster). CPMDEN.DDNS.NET

    Any advice would be appreciated.
  • From Digital Man to ACIERNO on Mon Mar 11 22:05:27 2024
    Re: Help requested.......
    By: ACIERNO to ALL on Mon Mar 11 2024 08:57 pm


    Life obligations forced me to take a step back from my BBS - CP/M Den - for a bit. First it was work obligations and then I was traveling for weeks with out my computer in tow (long story). I know this sounds crazy but now that I'm back, I cannot login!. I was sure I knew my passwords - but apparently I must have tried to be clever. Is there any way to access my BBS via the local console and reset my passwords or do I need to nuke it and start over. There are a bunch of files that I would hate to lose.

    It's Synchronet running on a raspberry pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster). CPMDEN.DDNS.NET

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    For Synchronet support questions:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support

    That said, your user passwords are in clear text in your data/user/user.dat file or (if Synchronet v3.20 or later), user.tab file. Just open the file in any plain text viewer and it should be obvious.
    --
    digital man (rob)

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  • From ACIERNO to Digital Man on Tue Mar 12 08:39:36 2024
    Thank you so much for this info! I did look at https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support and the very first paragraph directed me here - "If you're trying to get Synchronet technical support via e-mail, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, or any other social media/discussion group not specifically listed here, you're doing it wrong. Please go here instead or read on." the "here" brought me to this page - I apologize is this is not the correct place to post, I am a total novice.

    That said, My password is correct - I must have confused the system password. Is that stored somewhere I can find?

    Once again, thank you

    -Mark
  • From Digital Man to ACIERNO on Tue Mar 12 11:29:54 2024
    Re: Help requested.......
    By: ACIERNO to Digital Man on Tue Mar 12 2024 08:39 am

    Thank you so much for this info! I did look at https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support and the very first paragraph directed me here - "If you're trying to get Synchronet technical support via e-mail, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, or any other social media/discussion group not specifically listed here, you're doing it wrong. Please go here instead or read on." the "here" brought me to this page - I apologize is this is not the correct place to post, I am a total novice.

    This message area is the local "General" sub-board for Vertrauen BBS. The first "here" link on that wiki page takes you to the DOVE-Net "Synchronet Discussion" message area (a different message area dedicated for discussing Synchronet BBS software).

    That said, My password is correct - I must have confused the system password. Is that stored somewhere I can find?

    Yes, the system password is stored in ctrl/main.cnf (or ctrl/main.ini in v3.20) and visible/editable by running SCFG and looking under "System".
    --
    digital man (rob)

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