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|    BANDIT to Stettin Palver    |
|    Re: Renegade voting permissions    |
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      NA> Backup the VOTING.DAT file. Nuke it. Then create a zero-byte VOTING.DAT and       NA> try this again. Check the voting permissions in Config - ACS Settings (C)       SP>        SP> I will try that tonight, but I wanted to reply back here with another odd        SP> piece of information. My main goal was to provide a new user password to ol       SP> users and have them log in and have everything work, including viewing voti       SP> However it seems that after I verify the access works on a test user, then        SP> the (A) New User access to s##, I must always edit the new user to be s##+1       SP> For example I had it working with s201 on Testuser4. I changed new user acc       SP> to s201, then magically Testuser4 couldn't see topics. I bumped Testuser4 t       SP> 202 and the topics returned. So I went back to new users being s50, then se       SP> Testuser to 50, no topics. Set to 51 and can list topics.               OK, I backed up the VOTING.DAT and created a new blank empty file. I added one       test poll and confirmed it showed up ok on the test user. If I change the "new       user" default permission to that of the working Testuser4, that user loses the       ability to list polls until I add 1 to the security level. This is a bit        frustrating, but at least I know how to work around it.              I think I'll just start everyone out with s50 and manually bump them to 51 so        they can see the voting topics.              --- Renegade vY2Ka2        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)    |
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