• Bbs Security (was Freenet

    From Digital Man@VERT to MIKE POWELL on Sunday, February 07, 2010 19:23:47
    Re: Bbs Security (was Freenet
    By: MIKE POWELL to RASSILON on Sun Feb 07 2010 09:26 am

    ³ Not neccessarily true. If I feel like a SysOp is being too intrusive and ³ asking me for too much personal information I'll hang up. And I'm a
    ³ goody-two-shoes.
    ÀÄ[R=>MP]

    Your loss. Like I said, it ain't always the sysop. Some of these BBS systems have that stuff hard-coded. If it ain't open source, or isn't in a language you program in, you can't turn it off.

    For example, I changed one of the questions from asking for a street
    address to asking where the user heard about the BBS. I was able to change the screen that the user is shown with that question, and the prompt
    itself, but the software still requires some sort of answer (and it has to be at least 2 words).

    What BBS Software is this? In Synchronet, those kinds of new user questions can be easily disabled in SCFG->System->New User Values->Question Toggles.

    digital man

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