Connecting to Flux BBS

There are a number of ways to connect to Flux BBS.

FluxWeb

Under any operating system, you can use the web interface for Flux by going here

Classic Flux

Windows

If you wish to use "Classic Flux", and use the console based interface, you will need to connect with ssh.

Windows users: For ssh, we reccomend the use of PuTTY. It is unrivalled in its superbness.

Use PuTTY to connect via ssh to fluxbbs.org and enter bbs when prompted for the first username.

Unix/Linux/OSX

SSH comes with all modern UNIX/Linux systems, usually in the form of OpenSSH.

$ ssh bbs@fluxbbs.org

Welcome to Flux BBS

Old users:
o Log on here with your userid and password - but then you knew that already.

New users:
o Log in as 'guest' with the password 'guest' to look around, or..
o Create your own user by logging on as 'new'.  NOTE: You *must* have a 
  valid email address, or you won't be able to receive your startup 
  password.

Any problems, mail bbsadm@fluxbbs.org
userid ('new' for new user):