At 06:07 PM 2/19/01 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Would someone try and clear this up for me..
>Im trying to enable web access and to do this the user.dat file needs to be
>edited.
>
>The question is, I need absolutely full access to it and the syntax isnt
>allowing me.
>
>Going by the info at http://netwinsite.com/dnews/manage.htm#webadmin the
>format should follow thusly:
>
>username:password:Access_Mode:Managed_Groups:Descriptive_Name:List_of_usergr
>oups
>
>a.. addusers = Can add users to users.dat
>b.. config = Can edit the config files
>c.. access = Can add/change access.conf entries
>d.. status = Can run the status command
>e.. feed = Can modify news feeds
>f.. start = Can start/stop the server
>g.. killitem = Can delete items.
>
>I need all these and at the moment have only been able to log into it
>successfully but granted no config access for example.
>
>I have this line entered in the users.dat file:
>
><username>:<password>:config access killitem start status feed
>addusers:*:Name:
>I have also tried...
><username>:<password>:All:*:Name
>and...
><username>:<password>:Full:*:Name
>
>Any ideas? Obviously I'm stuffing it up somewhere but this is getting to bug
>me.
Use a comma separated list with no spaces. The last lookup is cached so
that is probably
why changing it to 'full' didn't fix it, to get past the cache restart dmgrsvc
net stop dmgrsvc
net start dmgrsvc
or
log in as a different user
ChrisP.
