Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!indetech!fiver!palowoda From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: XBBX spawning to news Summary: XBBS enhancements Keywords: news, usenet, XBBS, SCO Message-ID: <125@fiver.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 89 22:03:28 GMT References: <43@.UUCP> Organization: Fiver Communications Fremont, Ca Lines: 40 In article <43@.UUCP>, root@.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: > I am running Sandy's latest XBBS and am allowing my users (registered) > access to usenet. Is there any way in the configuration to allow all > users access to reading usenet messages but to lock them out of posting > to replying? Not directly, what I did is modified the source when it enters the u(S)net menu it checks for a security level. From there is a spawns two different versions of readnews or vnews, one that has all the shell access and replies stripped out if the security level is not high enough. Bumping up the security level allows the users to access the orig rnews and vnews along with postnews. If you interested I can send you the source changes. > > Also - is there a way to pass the users name into postnews so the > message originates from the user on the bbs rather than from bbs? This would be an excellent imporvement. I been trying to figure out a way to do this myself. What would be nice is if the xbbs software would create a single user profile in the /bbsfiles/usenet/Firstname/Lastname directory. In there it would have there .sig file, term profile, editor type, .newsrc etc. Also allowing users to edit the files in this directory. Somehow there would have to be a translation between the bbs users full name to a psudo unix account name the mailer can handle. I don't really want to create a login name everytime a new users logs in. How does ufgate for fidonet handle this? Another option (which would have to be built into the news reader, is the ability to send the article that your reading with xmodem or zmodem at the time the users reading it. ---Bob -- Bob Palowoda *Home of Fiver BBS* login: bbs Home {sun,dasiy}!ys2!fiver!palowoda (415)-623-8809 1200/2400 Work {sun,pyramid,decwrl}!megatest!palowoda (415)-623-8806 1200/2400/9600/19200 Voice: (415)-623-7495 Public access UNIX system