[Freeciv] Re: Auto CMDLevel

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:40:27PM -0500, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 04:21:27PM -0700, Jeff Dickman wrote:
> > I want to run a civserver, that will auto cmdlevel certain peopl when 
> > they connect, thus not having to grant shell access to the people that 
> > want to play.
> >  
> > Does this feature exist.
> 
> no, it doesn't. The only way to do this that I'm aware of would be to
> use CVS, enable authentication via ./autogen.sh --enable-auth _and_ write a
> patch for server/userdb.c to save cmdlevel information in the database and
> server/connecthand.c to use that information to set cmdlevel when the user
> connects. If you have the skills to do this or can convince someone else to
> do so, I will review the patch.

BTW, I'd really like this for pubserver...

> 
> Note that CVS now has firstlevel as ctrl so the first user to login can
> control the game (although not save games). This really should be
> sufficient.
> 
> perhaps the cmdlevel command should be modified to elevate others to your 
> level but not above...
> 
> -mike
> 

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Paul Zastoupil