Subj : Pascal & CGI
To   : Stephen Hayes
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Wed May 19 2004 05:54 pm

 -=> Quoting Stephen Hayes to Scott Little <=-

 SH> Scott Little wrote in a message to Stephen Hayes:
 
 SL>  [ 15 May 04 10:05, Stephen Hayes wrote to Scott Little ]
 
 SL>> What's the Sysop's Security level set to?
 SH> I can't remember.
 SH> Not that it would make much difference, because I was the only one
 SH> with sysop security set.
 
 SL> I mean on the netmail area.  The default is zero, which will let
 SL> everyone read everything.

 SH> It was set according to the user's security level.

 SH> Users with a higher security level (though not sysop level) could
 SH> sometimes (not always) read mail addressed to those of a lower
 SH> security level. Those with a lower security level could not usually
 SH> read the mail of those at a higher level.  

Aha!

That means you had the area's security level set to low.

You see, that setting is so you can let some users have "sysop" lrevel
access to specific areas on the BBS. 

If you *don't* set it to the "sysop" level access for the BBS in
general, then you've got that sort of hole.



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