Hey g00r00 whats the chance of adding a bot check section in mystic. I
know there are add ons to do it and I had one til I upgraded to 47 now
it doesnt work. I reinstalled it but when I run mplc botcheck1_2.mps
it says its not in the script directory. which it is it was working
fine til I upgraded so I have no idea why it wont work. Should be a
fairly easy add on I would think just make it so it could be turned
off if others dont want to use it. But i'm not the expert maybe it
cant be added I'm just asking!
Thanks Sam


Bye for now...
Sam

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Hey g00r00 whats the chance of adding a bot check section in mystic. I know there are add ons to do it and I had one til I upgraded to 47 now
it doesnt work. I reinstalled it but when I run mplc botcheck1_2.mps
it says its not in the script directory. which it is it was working
fine til I upgraded so I have no idea why it wont work. Should be a

I am not really sure what the botcheck script you mention actually does in order to implement it into Mystic. Can you explain more about it?

When you run mplc -T what happens? Does it compile your script? Where is your script and mplc located? mplc should be in your root Mystic directory. If you only run mplc <scriptname> it is going to look in the root Mystic directory for the script.

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Hey g00r00 whats the chance of adding a bot check section in mystic. I know there are add ons to do it and I had one til I upgraded to 47 now
it doesnt work. I reinstalled it but when I run mplc botcheck1_2.mps
it says its not in the script directory. which it is it was working

Another thing to note is this thing from the upgrade instructions:

- If you disabled fallback in any of your themes then you must go into the
theme editor and reset the values for fallback as these have been split
into specific fallback settings for each category (menu, prompts, etc)

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Sam Penwright wrote to G00r00 <=-

Hey g00r00 whats the chance of adding a bot check section in mystic. I know there are add ons to do it and I had one til I upgraded to 47 now
it doesnt work. I reinstalled it but when I run mplc botcheck1_2.mps
it says its not in the script directory. which it is it was working
fine til I upgraded so I have no idea why it wont work. Should be a
fairly easy add on I would think just make it so it could be turned
off if others dont want to use it. But i'm not the expert maybe it
cant be added I'm just asking!

Can't you do this in an MPL script during the prelogin sequence? I have
this kind of check implemented via wcBASIC on my WINS system BEFORE the
caller gets asked for his user name,

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Sam Penwright wrote to G00r00 <=-

Hey g00r00 whats the chance of adding a bot check section in mystic.

Can't you do this in an MPL script during the prelogin sequence? I have this kind of check implemented via wcBASIC on my WINS system BEFORE the caller gets asked for his user name,

Way above my head, It was working in 47B before I upgraded to 47A,
with the instruction that came with package..
Sam


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what is does if a bot telnets in or whatever you use to login to a bbs
it say hit esc twice to go to login if they dont hit esc twice with in
30 sec it doesnt let them procced into the bbs for login in.

I guess my question would be: What is the difference between a bot sitting at the "Press ESCAPE" prompt versus sitting at a "Enter your username" prompt?

I can whip up a sample startup.mps script to do the escape thing and include it with the next release. You could also do something similar with the "System Password" function. If you set it to a value of "BBS" and then edit the System Password prompt to read "Type BBS and press enter to enter: " then you will get
a similar effect (except they have type BBS instead of escape twice).

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Can't you do this in an MPL script during the prelogin sequence? I have

Yes you can and there are a few that do those things. You can do it without MPL by using a system password too.

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what is does if a bot telnets in or whatever you use to login to a bbs

I guess my question would be: What is the difference between a bot sitting at the "Press ESCAPE" prompt versus sitting at a "Enter your username" prompt?

Good Point!

Sam


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Can't you do this in an MPL script during the prelogin sequence? I hav

Yes you can and there are a few that do those things. You can do it without
MPL by using a system password too.

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Well, that is good to hear :)

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On 02 Feb 2022, g00r00 said the following...

what is does if a bot telnets in or whatever you use to login to a bb it say hit esc twice to go to login if they dont hit esc twice with i 30 sec it doesnt let them procced into the bbs for login in.

If you could do that for me I would appreciate it thanks. I'll look you suggestion also!
Thanks Sam

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what is does if a bot telnets in or whatever you use to login to it say hit esc twice to go to login if they dont hit esc twice w 30 sec it doesnt let them procced into the bbs for login in.

If you could do that for me I would appreciate it thanks. I'll look you suggestion also!

Hey sorry forgot about this request. I will upload a new A48 build tonight that has a botcheck.mps that does the escape twice thing.

I am really busy with stuff in real life so its easy for things to slip through the cracks right now!

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Hey sorry forgot about this request. I will upload a new A48 build tonight that has a botcheck.mps that does the escape twice thing.

Not a Problem my slow responds didnt help either, When you have time
my friend

I am really busy with stuff in real life so its easy for things to slip through the cracks right now!

Life comes first I understand that, so no worries!


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Sam

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On 07 Mar 2022, g00r00 said the following...

Hey sorry forgot about this request. I will upload a new A48 build tonight that has a botcheck.mps that does the escape twice thing.

Thank you sir, just tried this out and it works pretty slick.

I did copy something over from smooth/stackfault's botcheck.mps which I liked:

Begin
// Skip completely if using SSH (user already authenticated anyway)
If ACS('OS') Then
break

Not sure if you'd want to include this (or something similar) in your example script as well?


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Begin
// Skip completely if using SSH (user already authenticated anyway)
If ACS('OS') Then
break

Not sure if you'd want to include this (or something similar) in your example script as well?

Yeah thats not a bad idea! But I must warn you the actual authentication of the user will come after connect.mps is ran, so you don't really know if they gave you a real username/password yet at this point.

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