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Chapter 9:
User Setup
9.1.0
9.2.0 The user Editor!
USER EDITOR: (UserEd)
Now that you've set up your system's defaults, file libraries and message
boards, exit back to the waiting screen and hit F3 to visit the user
editor. This lets you create, edit, validate and delete any user who has
ever logged onto your system.
Once the user editor is brought up, you will see a prompt asking for
an users name. If you type '?', a listing of all the users on your
BBS will be listed. (Handy if you forget how to spell an users name.)
When you received this disk, an account called SYSOP has already been
set up. Just type "SYSOP" at the prompt, and information about this
account will pop onto the screen. As you can see, there is quite a lot
of information here. There are actually two screens here -- hit "M" to
get to the second screen. The first screen contains information that is
mostly set by the BBS program or by you. The second screen is mostly
personal information that has been entered by the user himself/herself
when they first signed up. You usually won't have to edit the inform-
ation on the second screen.
1) NAME - The name of the users account.
2) CALLS TODAY - How many calls the user made to your sytem today.
It's set by the program, so you don't have to touch this
one. However, if the user needs to call your BBS again on
the same day after using up all of his calls allowed for
the day, you could change this to 0 without having to raise
the users call limit.
3) TIME LEFT - How much time the user has left for the day, regard-
less of how many calls he made on that day. It's set by the
program. But you can change this if a user has used up
all his/her time for the day but he needs to call back for
some reason. Just raise the number.
4) CALL LIMIT - How many calls the user is allowed to make to your
system in a day. (Note: if the user has sysop access, he/she
can make unlimited numbers of calls to your system, no matter
what his call limit says.
5) STATUS - This indicates what kind of access the user has on your
system. 4D-BBS supports 4 kinds of access levels: NEW,
MEMBER, SYSOP and NO ACCESS. When an user logs on for the
first time, and his account is created via the new user
registration, he automatically becomes NEW. You have to
edit his account so he can become a MEMBER. Also, you can
have more than one sysop on your BBS, but since sysops have
almost unlimited power over anything on 4D-BBS, be careful
about who you make a sysop! People who have been marked as
NO ACCESS are automatically kicked off if no "No access menu"
can be found (More on that in Menu section).
6) LOCKS - This indicates what menu functions and menus the user
cannot access. More information on this later on.
7) CALLS - This is the total number of calls the user has made to your
system.
8) MSGS - This is the total number of messages the user has posted on
your system.
9) UPLOADS - This indicates how many files the user has uploaded to
your system.
0) DOWNLOADS - This indicates how many files the user has downloaded
from your system.
A) TIME LIMIT - This tells how much time the user is allowed to spend
on your sytem per call.
B) BOARDS - This indicates the access levels the user has for every
message base on your system. If you hit 'B' for this, a list
of each message base will be displayed, followed by the
access flag for that base. You can change one or more of the
access flags here.
When changing the access levels you can now use "B"
to change a bunch of subs to one access level.
C) FILES - This indicates the access levels the user has for the
file libraries. This works the same as above.("B")
D) DELETE OK - This indicates whether an users account can be deleted.
Now, on to the second screen...I believe that the information there
is pretty self-evident. But an explanation for the PRIVATE flag is
in order. There is a command in 4D-BBS that allows any user to look
up information (name, phone, interests, et cetera) on any other user.
However, if the PRIVATE flag is set, the users data will be made
private, so nobody (except sysops, of course) can look them up.
One feature of the user editor that you will find very handy is the
ability to look at each new user by typing "NEW" at the prompt. Each
new user will be displayed, one at a time, so you can look at them and
edit them. You will note that for new users, there is a command, "V",
to validate new users. This will adjust their access levels to that of
members automatically.
To create a new account for a user, all you have to do is type in
the name of the account and fill in the necessary information when
the screens come up.
** Some functions of the Demo user editor are disabled, so we won't get into
the descriptions and topics involved. (I will say this though, the
registered versions editor makes this one seem so limited you won't ever
understand why you used this one in the first place)!
4.4.2 New and Member Lock
When a new user logs onto the BBS, line 1: is the default menu locks which
they will have. When a uesr is validated from new to member access, line 2:
is copied to their menu locks. Refer to Chapter 5 for more information on
menus.
4.4.3 New and Member Allowed Time
Just like locks, except this is the default times a new and validated user
receives.
4.4.5 New and Member Boards
Just like locks, except this is the default boards access which a new and
validated user recives. Refer to Chapter 6 for more information on the
different flags for boards access.