Does anybody know if bbs.geminispace is closed to new users?? I can't seem to get cert registration to work, it just keeps telling me that the username is taken, regardless of what is entered. This is both with a homebrew client and with lagrange. please and thank you.

7 months ago

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@skyjake I think I fixed it...I was using PyOpenSSL to generate the cert/key but I guess that's been deprecated?? so I used the cryptography library and that seems to have worked so I dunno lol. again, I appreciate the offer of help. · 7 months ago

@skyjake I think I fixed it...I was using pyopenssl to generate the certs but I guess that's · 7 months ago

How did you generate the certificate? The BBS server runs on a fairly normal pyOpenSSL version, but it's possible it doesn't, for example, support the key algorithm that you were trying to use. · 7 months ago

@skyjake It looks like it might be an issue with the way I'm generating certificates since using the lagrange-created certs seems to have worked so, as suspected, it's entirely on my end lol. thanks for offering to help tho, I appreciate it! · 7 months ago

If you tell me which username(s) you've tried, I can inspect the database and see if those actually were partially created or if there was some other anomaly? · 7 months ago

@skyjake In Lagrange, I go to "sign up", I pick a previously generated certificate and it says "New Certificate Detected". I go to "Create Account" and enter the username and after submission it sez "That name is already taken. You may use letters, digits, underscores and dashes." and am prompted with another "input" and this goes on in circles. I'm probably doing something wrong but I can't reckon what it is. · 7 months ago

BBS user registrations are open and there have been a couple of new accounts registered daily recently.

I don't see any obvious errors in the server log... · 7 months ago

I was just able to create a new user via a new certificate without issue using Lagrange. Perhaps you were experiencing a temporary hiccup? · 7 months ago

@skyjake · 7 months ago