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  • Read Mail loadable module: No way to read other user's personal mail/

    From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Eric Oulashin on Thu Feb 9 12:02:22 2023
    Re: Read Mail loadable module: No way to read other user's personal mail/s
    By: Eric Oulashin to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Thu Feb 09 2023 09:26 am

    It makes sense that Synchronet would consider "admin" to be me, but it seems that someone was able to create a new user account with the name/handle as "admin".

    I don't think Synchronet as considering "admin" to be you, but rather, if you specify a usernumber or alias that can't be found (or is a deleted user record, at least up until those last couple commits) - then it the user editor would default to displaying user #1.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Thu Feb 9 16:42:30 2023
    Re: Read Mail loadable module: No way to read other user's personal mail/s
    By: Gamgee to Eric Oulashin on Thu Feb 09 2023 06:15 pm

    Eric Oulashin wrote to GitLab note in main/sbbs <=-

    <SNIP>

    It makes sense that Synchronet would consider "admin" to be me,
    but it seems that someone was able to create a new user account
    with the name/handle as "admin".

    Strange, that shouldn't be possible assuming "admin" is in your ../text/name.can file (it is there by default).

    That wasn't always the case though: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commits/master/text/name.can

    If a sysop's SBBS install is 11+ years old, they wouldn't have "admin" in there (and many other diallowed user names).
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Thu Feb 9 16:48:46 2023
    Re: Read Mail loadable module: No way to read other user's personal mail/s
    By: Gamgee to Eric Oulashin on Thu Feb 09 2023 06:15 pm

    but it seems that someone was able to create a new user account
    with the name/handle as "admin".

    Strange, that shouldn't be possible assuming "admin" is in your ../text/name.can file (it is there by default).

    It's not in my name.can. I've been using Synchronet since 2007, and maybe "admin" was added to name.can some time after I started using it?

    I've added it now though.

    Nightfox

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Fri Feb 10 07:39:00 2023
    Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

    It makes sense that Synchronet would consider "admin" to be me,
    but it seems that someone was able to create a new user account
    with the name/handle as "admin".

    Strange, that shouldn't be possible assuming "admin" is in your ../text/name.can file (it is there by default).

    That wasn't always the case though: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commits/master/text/name.can

    Ahhhh, excellent.

    If a sysop's SBBS install is 11+ years old, they wouldn't have
    "admin" in there (and many other diallowed user names).

    Yep, that makes sense. I'm thinking there aren't that many who wouldn't
    have done a fresh install in that long (for whatever reason). ;-)



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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Fri Feb 10 07:41:00 2023
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    but it seems that someone was able to create a new user account
    with the name/handle as "admin".

    Strange, that shouldn't be possible assuming "admin" is in your ../text/name.can file (it is there by default).

    It's not in my name.can. I've been using Synchronet since 2007,
    and maybe "admin" was added to name.can some time after I started
    using it?

    Yes, that seems to be the case. DigitalMan replied here and showed a
    gitlab commit from 2011 where that name (and many others) were added.

    I've added it now though.

    It would probably be a good idea to grab the latest name.can from the
    repo and use it, as there are a lot of other additions to the file
    too...



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