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to: Shawn Highfield
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2017-05-23 16:41:58
subject: Port 23.

Hello Shawn!

23 May 17 05:19, you wrote to mark lewis:

 SH>   I haven't tried creating a new account via ssh, but I would assume
 SH> that won't work due to the nature of ssh.

Correct.  The bbs account (used for new user registration) does not have a 
password, and therefore cannot be logged into via SSH.

In theory one could add a password to that account, but then you would need a 
method to distribute the password to potential new users.

Andrew

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