[Dxspider-support] show/lockout all?

[Dirk Koopman]

What used to happen was that when a new node came on via a PC19 it was
set up as a node user. We then discovered that that was a problem,
allowing anybody to connect to anybody else without any sysop
intervention. 

I changed the code so that any new PC19 node comes in, creates a node
user and is then automatically locked out. 

Doing a set/node/spider/ak1a/whatever on the console then automatically
unlocks that node on the grounds that if you put that command in,
chances are you want to connect to them. Obviously an unset/lockout
command also unlocks them.

lock_nodes.pl was the conversion program to lock all nodes that didn't
have an existing lock status (either locked or unlocked). It was
designed to be run once only on nodes that needed to change to the new
system (well it was new then...).

lock_nodes.pl should not now be run unless you *really* *really* know
what you are doing...

The side effect of this is that sh/lock all will show *many* locked
nodes.

Dirk G1TLH
 
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:59, Angel M. Claus wrote:
> Hello Arnold,
> 
> >If I issue the command show/lockout all I get 894 records listed as
> >being locked out. I am quite sure I have not set them all manually.
> 
> Remember that lng time ago lock_nodes.pl was created to avoid all those
> nodes not been defined as partners to connect to our nodes.
> 
> once you run lock_nodes.pl, all those nodes known by the system were
> automatically locked out and just unlocking them was the way to permit
> them to connect again.
> 
> The problem is when as you mentioned, somebody is running a cluster
> with his own callsign, no ssid, as this person will be locked out
> as node and as user too.
> 
> 73 de Angel - EA7WA.
> 
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