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

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

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