Subj : Re: script to create / update a user in Mystic BBS
To   : All
From : Chad Adams
Date : Sun Sep 27 2020 03:06 pm

Ever considered making a command line utility for management? I’d love to
write in in FreePascal if I knew how to open the user and system file to read
and write. 

I wonder if I could find out from the last Mystic open source that’s out
there. 

On 08:08 27/09 , g00r00 wrote:
> AT> I need a script to create a user, given username / password / email ; the
> AT> script should check if the user is already existing, and in this case
> AT> update email and password
>
>There is no way to update the password via command line because that could
be a
>huge security issue, but you can create users from command line if you need
>to:
>
>mystic -newuser handle=g00r00 email=me@mysticbbs.com pass=1234
>
>It will return "TRUE" or "FALSE" to STDIO depending on whether or not the user
>is created. It will not update an existing user, it will return FALSE if the
ID
>is already taken.
>
>Do you have a way to detect in your script if the user is new or existing? 
>
>I suppose I could do a "update" function that allows a user to be updated as
>long as their security level is less than 250.  I don't know that I want to
>create a single function that either creates OR updates a user though, I'd
>have to think that through more.
>
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