Enigma 1-2 BBS is a cross-platform bulletin board system that supports a variety of operating systems including OpenBSD. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process on OpenBSD.
Before we begin the installation process, there are a few prerequisites that need to be met:
Enigma BBS requires a few dependencies to be installed before it can run. These dependencies can be installed using the OpenBSD package manager.
Open a terminal and run the following command to install the necessary dependencies:
sudo pkg_add node
sudo pkg_add npm
sudo pkg_add git
Next, we need to download Enigma BBS from the official GitHub repository. Open a terminal and run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/nuskooler/enigma-bbs.git
This will download the latest version of Enigma BBS source code to your local machine.
Before we can run Enigma BBS, we need to configure it to our liking. Inside the enigma-bbs directory, there is a file called config/config.hjson.example. Make a copy of this file and rename it to config.hjson.
cd enigma-bbs
cp config/config.hjson.example config/config.hjson
Next, we need to edit the config.hjson file and modify the following settings:
systemName - This is the name that will be displayed to users when they connect to your BBS.systemOps - This is a comma-separated list of user IDs that have full administrative access to the BBS.listen - This is the address and port that Enigma BBS will listen on. By default, it listens on all available interfaces on port 8888.{
"systemName": "My Enigma BBS",
"systemOps": ["root"],
"listen": {
"host": "0.0.0.0",
"port": 8888
}
}
Save and close the config.hjson file.
The next step is to install the required Node modules. Open a terminal and run the following command inside the enigma-bbs directory:
sudo npm install
This will download and install all of the required Node modules that Enigma BBS needs to run.
Now that Enigma BBS is configured and the Node modules are installed, we can finally run the BBS. Open a terminal and run the following command inside the enigma-bbs directory:
sudo node src/bbs.js
This will start Enigma BBS and it will be available for users to connect to.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Enigma 1-2 BBS on OpenBSD. We installed the necessary dependencies using the OpenBSD package manager, downloaded the Enigma BBS source code from GitHub, configured Enigma BBS to our liking, installed the required Node modules, and finally started Enigma BBS.
With Enigma BBS up and running, you can start customizing it to your liking and create your own community of users.
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