Re: Prevent New Web users fro
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Dec 31 2022 11:04 am
> > > I am trying to figure out how, or if there is a way, to restrict only
> > > New and WWW (i.e. they meet both requirements) from being able to post
> > > in message areas until they are upgraded. I was hoping to figure out
> > > that maybe I could set the new user level for those users to a separate
> > > value than for telnet/SSH/etc. users.
>
> > Better yet, just check the protocol in the posting requirements string:
> > LEVEL <upgraded> OR PROT != HTTP*
>
> > Where <upgraded> is your upgraded-user level. That should do what you're
> anti
> > . "HTTP*" should match either "HTTP" or "HTTPS".
>
> I don't this fixes it, unless I am misunderstanding the condition
> statement.
>
> I want to limit *only* *new* web users from being able to post until they
> are upgraded. I think your way would still limit everyone until they are
> upgraded (first half of statement satisfied), but would never allow web
> users to post (second half satisfied), which is what I am trying to avoid.
That's exactly what the requirements string I provided does:
Security level must be greater than or equal to the <upgraded> level, OR
their protocol must not be HTTP*. If their protocol is not HTTP*, then the secur
ity level doesn't matter.
> I think that would require something like this:
>
> IF PROT = HTTP*
> LEVEL <upgraded WWW>
> ELSE
> LEVEL <that it used to be before WWW spammer problems>
> END-IF
Nope.
> I think I can phrase that in a synchronet conditional statement like this:
>
> LEVEL <upgraded WWW> OR (LEVEL <something lower> AND PROT != HTTP*)
>
> From the wiki page, Nested example 2, it does look like I can nest
> statements that way, and SCFG (under linux) will just BARELY let me get
> that typed in. :)
You don't need a nested example because there are only 2 conditions.
> Now, is there a way to set that globally for all message areas?
If you're running v3.20a, doing a search/replace of the "post_ars" key values sh
ould be easy with most text editors.
> I thought
> I could set a global requirement under SCFG -> Message Options but I
> don't see it there.
No, the closest thing is the template sub-board that you clone to the rest of th
e message group with a single operation in SCFG.
Also, ecWeb supports its own set of newuser values:
https://wiki.synchro.net/config:webv4#new_user_values
So you could just give new users via web the 'P' restriction and then remove it
when they're validated.
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