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CAPTCHA mod or something like that

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From: acn...@IMZADI.remove-mg5-this (acn)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
Message-ID: <61E31654.4760.dove-syncdisc@box.imzadi.de>
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 by: acn - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:45 UTC

Hi,

does anyone know of a mod that provides a CAPTCHA or something like that, at
least like 'press Esc twice to continue'?
I've seen such 'pre-login' checks at some Mystic BBSes and think they're nice
:)

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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CAPTCHA mod or something like that

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From: night...@DIGDIST.remove-f0p-this (Nightfox)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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 by: Nightfox - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:33 UTC

To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to All on Sat Jan 15 2022 07:45 pm

ac> does anyone know of a mod that provides a CAPTCHA or something like that,
ac> at least like 'press Esc twice to continue'?
ac> I've seen such 'pre-login' checks at some Mystic BBSes and think they're
ac> nice :)

I wrote one for my BBS for the new user process, but I haven't made it available for download.

Nightfox

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From: digital....@vert.synchro.net.remove-o7q-this (Digital Man)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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X-FTN-PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/635c258d2 Jan 14 2022 MSC 1928
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 by: Digital Man - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 21:21 UTC

To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to All on Sat Jan 15 2022 07:45 pm

> Hi,
>
> does anyone know of a mod that provides a CAPTCHA or something like that, at
> least like 'press Esc twice to continue'?
> I've seen such 'pre-login' checks at some Mystic BBSes and think they're
> nice :)

There's one here, but it assumes your logon module is written in Baja:
http://web.synchro.net/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=sbbs_3rd&file=captcha.zip

Waiting for someone to hit ESC in your login module would be just a couple lines of JS code. Something like:

print("Press ESC to login...");
while(bbs.online && console.getkey(K_NOECHO) != KEY_ESC);

(K_NOECHO is defined in sbbsdefs.js and KEY_ESC is defined in key_defs.js)

.... but it sort of begs the question: why? A bot is disconnected pretty quickly with the default configuration, I think it's 30 seconds of no ANSI or other inactivity?
--
digital man (rob)

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From: mro...@BBSESINF.remove-xns-this (MRO)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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X-FTN-PID: Synchronet 3.18b-Win32 Sep 20 2020 MSC 1927
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 by: MRO - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:20 UTC

To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to All on Sat Jan 15 2022 07:45 pm

> Hi,
>
> does anyone know of a mod that provides a CAPTCHA or something like that, at
> least like 'press Esc twice to continue'?
> I've seen such 'pre-login' checks at some Mystic BBSes and think they're
> nice :)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Anna

yeah you can make your own pretty easy.
i have a dumb one i wrote in baja.

it's an ugly hack and i could have done better. it's never failed me though.
i uploaded it on vert probably.
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From: mro...@BBSESINF.remove-xns-this (MRO)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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X-FTN-PID: Synchronet 3.18b-Win32 Sep 20 2020 MSC 1927
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 by: MRO - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:21 UTC

To: Nightfox
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Nightfox to acn on Sat Jan 15 2022 11:33 am

> Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
> By: acn to All on Sat Jan 15 2022 07:45 pm
>
> ac> does anyone know of a mod that provides a CAPTCHA or something like
> ac> that, at least like 'press Esc twice to continue'?
> ac> I've seen such 'pre-login' checks at some Mystic BBSes and think
> ac> they're nice :)
>
> I wrote one for my BBS for the new user process, but I haven't made it
> available for download.
>

no, you need a front end for the bots. and with mine it blacklists them if they fail it.
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Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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 by: MRO - Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:22 UTC

To: Digital Man
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Digital Man to acn on Sat Jan 15 2022 01:21 pm

>
> ... but it sort of begs the question: why? A bot is disconnected pretty
> quickly with the default configuration, I think it's 30 seconds of no ANSI
> or other inactivity?

well i've seen bots have multiple instances and use up all the nodes.
blocking them when they fail a challenge works pretty well.
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From: digital....@vert.synchro.net.remove-i6w-this (Digital Man)
Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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To: MRO
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: MRO to Digital Man on Sat Jan 15 2022 04:22 pm

> Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
> By: Digital Man to acn on Sat Jan 15 2022 01:21 pm
>
>
> > ... but it sort of begs the question: why? A bot is disconnected pretty
> > quickly with the default configuration, I think it's 30 seconds of no
> > ANSI or other inactivity?
>
> well i've seen bots have multiple instances and use up all the nodes.
> blocking them when they fail a challenge works pretty well.

Setting MaxConcurrentConnections = 1 or 2 works pretty well too.

*I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send the right response to a challenge.
--
digital man (rob)

Breaking Bad quote #13:
I got twenty bucks that says he's a beaner. - Hank
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Subject: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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To: Digital Man
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Digital Man to MRO on Sat Jan 15 2022 05:23 pm

>
> Setting MaxConcurrentConnections = 1 or 2 works pretty well too.

synchronet absolutely does not work well against attackers.
if there's attackers hitting the bbs, it slows it down for users that are actually using the system.

i dont want 1 or 2 nodes tied up all night.
that's why i block and they go in the firewall.

> *I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just
> because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send the
> right response to a challenge.

i give them a couple of tries. who has problems with their terminals?

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To: Digital Man
Hi *,

thank your for the suggestions.

DMs idea about the 2-liner sounds nice, that really is the easiest idea.
I think I'll try that as a first solution.

The reason why I would like something like that is that I hope that bots who
try some username/password combinations on "login:" prompts might be stopped
from doing that if something else has to be done before the "login:" prompt
appears.

Maybe I will write failed login attempts into a separate logfile that fail2ban
can take into account to ban such 'hackers' for 10 minutes.

Regards,
Anna

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To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to Digital Man on Sun Jan 16 2022 01:16 pm

> Hi *,
>
> thank your for the suggestions.
>
> DMs idea about the 2-liner sounds nice, that really is the easiest idea.
> I think I'll try that as a first solution.
>
> The reason why I would like something like that is that I hope that bots who
> try some username/password combinations on "login:" prompts might be stopped
> from doing that if something else has to be done before the "login:" prompt
> appears.
>
> Maybe I will write failed login attempts into a separate logfile that
> fail2ban can take into account to ban such 'hackers' for 10 minutes.

Have you read this? https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:block-hackers
--
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 by: acn - Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:53 UTC

To: Digital Man
Hi,

> Have you read this? https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:block-hackers

Yes, I have - and I think I enabled the suggested options in my setup.

But an additional line of defense couldn't be that bad :)

Regards,
Anna

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 by: acn - Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:41 UTC

To: Digital Man
Hi DM,

> Waiting for someone to hit ESC in your login module would be just a couple
> lines of JS code. Something like:

> print("Press ESC to login...");
> while(bbs.online && console.getkey(K_NOECHO) != KEY_ESC);

> (K_NOECHO is defined in sbbsdefs.js and KEY_ESC is defined in key_defs.js)

I've tried adding these lines to the top of login.js (copied to mods/), just
before "bbs.logout()".

But this is displayed *after* answer.msg/banner1.msg...

Would it have any side-effects if I remove answer.msg/banner1.msg and let them
get displayed at the beginning of login.js after the "Press ESC to login"
message?

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to Digital Man on Mon Jan 17 2022 02:41 pm

> Hi DM,
>
> > Waiting for someone to hit ESC in your login module would be just a couple
> > lines of JS code. Something like:
>
> > print("Press ESC to login...");
> > while(bbs.online && console.getkey(K_NOECHO) != KEY_ESC);
>
> > (K_NOECHO is defined in sbbsdefs.js and KEY_ESC is defined in key_defs.js)
>
> I've tried adding these lines to the top of login.js (copied to mods/), just
> before "bbs.logout()".
>
> But this is displayed *after* answer.msg/banner1.msg...
>
> Would it have any side-effects if I remove answer.msg/banner1.msg and let
> them get displayed at the beginning of login.js after the "Press ESC to
> login" message?

Another way to do that would be to add at the top of your banner*.msg file:
@exec:yourmod@ (EXEC in uppercase)

then create exec/yourmod.js with those lines you want to execute before the body of the banner (and answer.* file) is displayed.
--
digital man (rob)

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To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to Digital Man on Mon Jan 17 2022 10:53 am

> Hi,
>
> > Have you read this? https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:block-hackers
>
> Yes, I have - and I think I enabled the suggested options in my setup.
>
> But an additional line of defense couldn't be that bad :)
>
> Regards,
> Anna

i use peerblock on my windows 32bit bbses. if there's a bad ip range, i just put it into a .p2p file and load it in there.
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 by: acn - Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:33 UTC

To: Digital Man
Hi,

> Another way to do that would be to add at the top of your banner*.msg file:
> @exec:yourmod@ (EXEC in uppercase)
> then create exec/yourmod.js with those lines you want to execute before the
> body of the banner (and answer.* file) is displayed.

Thank you very much for that hint!
It's working :)

Now I can tweak my 'yourmod' file a little :)

Regards,
Anna

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To: acn
Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: acn to Digital Man on Tue Jan 18 2022 10:33 am

> Hi,
>
> > Another way to do that would be to add at the top of your banner*.msg
> > file: @exec:yourmod@ (EXEC in uppercase)
> > then create exec/yourmod.js with those lines you want to execute before
> > the body of the banner (and answer.* file) is displayed.
>
> Thank you very much for that hint!
> It's working :)

No problem, cool.

> Now I can tweak my 'yourmod' file a little :)

Yes, and you can name it whatever you like. :-)
--
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 by: acn - Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:03 UTC

To: Digital Man
Hi,

>> Now I can tweak my 'yourmod' file a little :)
> Yes, and you can name it whatever you like. :-)

Don't worry, I did change the name :) (it's named captcha.js *g*)

Regards,
Anna

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To: Digital Man
On 1/15/22 18:23, Digital Man wrote:
>
> Setting MaxConcurrentConnections = 1 or 2 works pretty well too.

Oh yeah... you may want to bump the default to 3 or 4 on your FTP config.

I was trying to download the bbsfiles.com archive from your server, and
even when I dropped my max connections to 1 at a time, there were still
issues when doing PASV downloads against a queue of files to download.

I'm guessing that the transfer showed as done on FileZilla, then
attempted to start a new connection/transfer etc before your system
marked the old connection as done.

Wasn't too bad, just requeue a few times on the failures.
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Subject: Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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To: MRO
On 1/15/22 20:00, MRO wrote:
>> *I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just
>> because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send the
>> right response to a challenge.
>
> i give them a couple of tries. who has problems with their terminals?

People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.
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Subject: Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
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 by: MRO - Sat, 22 Jan 2022 08:28 UTC

To: Tracker1
Re: Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Tracker1 to Digital Man on Fri Jan 21 2022 04:32 pm

> On 1/15/22 18:23, Digital Man wrote:
>
> > Setting MaxConcurrentConnections = 1 or 2 works pretty well too.
>
> Oh yeah... you may want to bump the default to 3 or 4 on your FTP config.
>
> I was trying to download the bbsfiles.com archive from your server, and
> even when I dropped my max connections to 1 at a time, there were still
> issues when doing PASV downloads against a queue of files to download.
>

i put up another link to it.

arent you the guy i got the files from?
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 by: MRO - Sat, 22 Jan 2022 08:28 UTC

To: Tracker1
Re: Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Tracker1 to MRO on Fri Jan 21 2022 04:34 pm

> >> *I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just
> >> because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send
> the >> right response to a challenge.
>
> > i give them a couple of tries. who has problems with their terminals?
>
> People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.

FUCK THOSE GUYS.
and tell them to stay off my bbses.
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 by: Gamgee - Sat, 22 Jan 2022 20:07 UTC

To: Tracker1
-=> Tracker1 wrote to MRO <=-

>> *I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just
>> because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send
the
>> right response to a challenge.

> i give them a couple of tries. who has problems with their terminals?

Tr> People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.

How many people do you suppose are doing that?

Let's say just in North America. One, or two?

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 by: Tracker1 - Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:56 UTC

To: Gamgee
On 1/22/22 13:07, Gamgee wrote:
>> People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.
>
> How many people do you suppose are doing that?
>
> Let's say just in North America. One, or two?

Well, I've been using the new MS terminal for a while now (in Windows),
and Tabby on Mac and Linux. I also use the VS Code terminal a lot.

I've also worked on using the xterm.js library directly.

And that doesn't even scratch the number of terminal emulators/apps
built in the past 2-3 years alone.

That said, haven't had too many issues with various telnet/rlogin/ssh
connections, but sometimes I do see odd behavior in more than a handful
of scenarios.
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To: Tracker1
Re: Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
By: Tracker1 to Gamgee on Thu Jan 27 2022 02:56 pm

>>> People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.

>> How many people do you suppose are doing that?

Tr> Well, I've been using the new MS terminal for a while now (in Windows),
Tr> and Tabby on Mac and Linux. I also use the VS Code terminal a lot.

Are you saying you're running telnet from the Microsoft Windows Terminal app to connect to BBSes?

Nightfox

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To: Nightfox
On 1/27/22 19:15, Nightfox wrote:
>>>> People developing or testing a new terminal application for one.
>>>
>>> How many people do you suppose are doing that?
>
>> Well, I've been using the new MS terminal for a while now (in
>> Windows), and Tabby on Mac and Linux. I also use the VS Code
>> terminal a lot.
>
> Are you saying you're running telnet from the Microsoft Windows
> Terminal app to connect to BBSes?

Yes. Both via windows (cmd/powershell) and via WSL/Ubuntu
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