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.