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Re: getting rid of Message and Dial

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From: Scott Mattes
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 20:16
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1992 14:21:57 LCL Bridget Rutty said:
>On Fri, 31 Jan 1992 11:44:13 CST Alejandro J. Kurczyn S. said:
>>I want to get rid of the Message and Dial commands available on "logon"
>>users, but I can't do it with override. Am I doing something wrong? how can I
>>do it?
>>
>>This must be done in order to prevent students chat with other logged users,
>>or dial to some other user's account capable of handle dialed users.
>
>Dial and message commands are class any which mean that you cannot disable
>them.  .....................................................................

  You can disable them with a CP mod.  Off the top of my head, and not
knowing your CP version, I would say look in DMKCFC.

>.....  I understand your concern about students abusing others with message.
>We removed the references to MSG in the LOGO module DMKBOX and on the
>line mode prompt in DMKMES (HPO 5).  This means that message still works
>before logon, but nobody knows that and so we do not have a problem with it.

  Out of site, out of mind won't work for the type of people you
probably want to keep from using those commands, unfortunately.

Scott       | No success can compensate for failure in the home. David O. McKay
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