[Coco] Network Access for my COCO

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:11 PM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

> 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?

That stuff is left over from some years ago when we were running some
OS9 systems online for public demos. Believe it or not, this attracted
the attention of some folks who dedicated their time to crashing the
systems.  The 'protect' option told DW4 to do it's own authentication
prior to opening the coco connection and to disconnect sessions after
idle, stuff like that.   It doesn't do anything in the current version
IIRC.

You can replace login with tsmon or shell or any OS9 executable you'd
like.  I don't recall the logic behind the current default, if there
is any (beyond that it works).

>
> 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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