Public Telnet Server?

[Dave]

On Aug 12, 2:03 pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n... at snipabacken.dyndns.org>
wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:07:25 -0000, Dave <davmil... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there. I'm a beginner at Python and I'm writing my first Python
> > script. It's a text adventure about coffee and mixing drinks and being
> > crazy and such. I keep updating it and want my friends to beta test it
> > for me, but some of them don't have the right version of Python or
> > don't want to get Python at all. Is there an easy way I can set up a
> > public telnet server so they can just telnet the server and play it?
>
> - get yourself a Unix machine with a real, routable IP address
> - enable telnet (or better, ssh) access
> - create a new user
> - make the game this user's login shell, or let her login script
>   exec the game
> - test it out
> - distribute address, user name and password to people
>
> "netcat ... -e the_game" may be another option.
>
> However, the security implications of this may be serious. You should
> assume these people can get local user shell access whenever they feel
> like it, and use your machine for evil purposes. I trust my brother
> with local access to my machines, and noone else[1].
>
> /Jörgen
>
> [1] Well, his two cats too, but they have never logged in so far.
>     Probably forgot the password, too.
>
> --
>   // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@        Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
> \X/     snipabacken.dyndns.org>  R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually on Linux and a friend helped
me enabled SSH and make the game the login script for a dummy account,
but then he was generous enough to let me put it on a spare server of
his too. :)

As for the py2exe suggestion, I actually just tried that yesterday so
now there's a Windows Executable version of the game for friends to
try as well.

Both versions are available, plus source, from http://thegriddle.net/python/
if you want to check it out. Thanks again!

Dave