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echo: mbse
to: Jon Watson
from: Paul Quinn
date: 2004-07-14 14:35:00
subject: Re: External Editor Confusion

Hi! Jon,

In a message to Michiel Broek you wrote:

 MB>> I guess the testuser has sysop access to the netmail areas. In
 MB>> the areas setup are 3 levels, Read Write and Sysop. If the user 
 MB>> security
 MB>> level >= Sysop then the testuser can do anything.
 JW> You're right - I'm an idiot. I was blindly setting all three
 JW> (read/write/sysop) levels to 20 thus giving *every* user on my board 
 JW> SysOp access to those areas.

 JW> My bad....let's just forget this thing ever happened...

:)

You've got that the wrong way around, of course.  Make his day... now turn
around and tell him he's still got a bug in the configuration whattises,
that should never let a situation like that develope.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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