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BBS-io Server (v0.0.0)

WORK IN PROGRESS This suite is a work in progress, features and implementation details will change as this progresses.

Pre-Requisites

You will need the following in order to run this software at least until a 1.0 release is close.

• docker >= 1.7.1
• docker-compose >= 1.3

Features

BBS-io Server aims to be a full BBS Software Suite with the following features.

• Service oriented using docker-compose.
  • Single-Server default, custom cluster options
  • RethinkDB data store
  • NodeJS based services
  • DOSemu for legacy DOS based door support
• API used for all interactions
  • Authentication
    • OAuth2 Support
    • Multiple login options to a single profile
    • SysOp Limitations
      • Limit logins per IP
      • Limit access from TOR exit nodes
      • Email Validation
• Door Runner - DOS Door Support
  • Able to have multiple door-runner instances
    • Each runner will have its' own door configuration
• Web UI
  • Redux / React
  • HTMLTerm integration for transparent door support
  • Interactive features (private message online users)
  • shout integration for IRC (future)
• Terminal UI (SSH, Telnet)
  • US-ASCII (initial baseline)
  • ANSI-BBS detection (initial)
  • Virtual Terminal (future)
    • Allow for pause/resume of interactions for use with multi-node chat interactions

Services & Modules

• Data
  • bbs-data - data interaction interfaces
    • Will be the default named container running RethinkDB
  • bbs-session - active session data
    • Will be teh default named container running Redis
• Web
  • bbs-web - BBS Primary API and Web Interface(s)
• Door Runner
  • bbs-doors-dosemu - will be configured to use dos-emu, this will likely be the most supported version.
• Terminal
  • bbs-terminal - will run the services for terminal client connections (ssh, telnet, rlogin)