On-line blitz tourney May

[hgm]

Chessd actually does support automatic registration. But this requires a mailer deamon to be running, which forwards mails that Chessd puts in a spooler directory. For security reasons, Chessd is not capable of sending the mails by itself, as it is designed to run in a so-called 'chroot jail'. (Don't ask me what this is...)

As I currently only run the server when I am present, it was not really worth it to figure out how to do that.

[bob]

Chessd actually does support automatic registration. But this requires a mailer deamon to be running, which forwards mails that Chessd puts in a spooler directory. For security reasons, Chessd is not capable of sending the mails by itself, as it is designed to run in a so-called 'chroot jail'. (Don't ask me what this is...)

As I currently only run the server when I am present, it was not really worth it to figure out how to do that.

It makes "jail" the "root directory" so that anything running using that application can not see upper level directories such as /, /tmp and such. It's a typical security provision to prevent security issues in a program such as the server code itself causing a system issue. You can attempt a buffer overrun exploit if the server code is poorly written, but the overrun code still can't see "/" and such directories, which improves security.

[bob]

I've not seen the guest problem. We play unrated games which should be viewable by _anyone_.

Guest cannot chat or join channels. How can they know who are in the tournament, who is playing, what games are in progress, etc?

Things that guests can do on ICC are way too limited, the experience is really pretty bad.

The server is not designed for "guests". It is a members-only facility, which is a good thing when you think about it. This way we get no obnoxious brats that just want to create problems, cause arguments and other such behavioural problems.

In return we get a lot of extremely talented chess players that drift in and out to watch the games.

[CThinker]

I've not seen the guest problem. We play unrated games which should be viewable by _anyone_.

Guest cannot chat or join channels. How can they know who are in the tournament, who is playing, what games are in progress, etc?

Things that guests can do on ICC are way too limited, the experience is really pretty bad.

The server is not designed for "guests". It is a members-only facility, which is a good thing when you think about it. This way we get no obnoxious brats that just want to create problems, cause arguments and other such behavioural problems.

In return we get a lot of extremely talented chess players that drift in and out to watch the games.

I know the value of registered users. But registration on ICC requires a payment.

On Harm's server, we can also require registered users only, but if would be free.