Subj : Re: File down loads total on webv4
To : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 07:31 pm
-=> Nightfox wrote to Rixter <=-
Ni> Re: File down loads total on webv4
Ni> By: Rixter to echicken on Tue Sep 10 2024 12:41 pm
Ri> Guests on my bbs are not allowed to download. Only authenticated users
Ri> can.
Ni> If you want people to be able to freely download files from your BBS
Ni> via a web link without having an account on your BBS, you'd need to
Ni> allow the guest account to download files. Sometimes it's useful to be
Ni> able to share files with people that way. For instance, other BBS
Ni> sysops might be interested in downloading BBS-related files from your
Ni> BBS, and they might not have a user account on your BBS.
Personally I'd have to disagree with that policy. I don't even offer a
web interface, but web/telnet would be the same for me - as in : If you
want a file from my BBS, create a user account and get it. Otherwise...
get it from somewhere else.
