Hello deon!

Sunday June 18 2023 09:31, you wrote to me:

 de>  * Forwarded from area 'FIDOSOFT.HUSKY'
 de>   Re: Private area
 de>   By: Rick Smith to All on Sat Jun 17 2023 10:26 am

 >> Is there a way to make a specific echo area private from general
 >> mail users? I host micronet and there is one echo meant only for
 >> mail hubs and somehow a user was able to add it using areafix, I
 >> mean I know how they did it, but is there a flag or something in
 >> hpt that would prevent users without auth adding that echo?


 de> Yes, "levels" will help you with that. (lr and lw - read/write
 de> respectively)

 de> Set your nodes at one level, and make the inaccessible areas a higher
 de> level.

Appreciate that Deon, I was reading that as well.. So on the one line in areas_micronet for that particular echo meant for hubs only I put -lr 50 -lr 50 and set all my downlinks to level 10, that should do it? I also put hide in that line I believe that will hide it from %LIST areafix requests?



Regards,

Rick

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