From: cctr127@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Jason Haar, NEWS Manager)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Source code for NEWS/CAPTIVE
Date: 9 Apr 91 21:17:24 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The disabled commands just return without doing anything when they are
"invoked". I was thinking of including error messages, but Geoff doesn't
within the /READONLY option, so I thought I'd be consistant. The only slight
bug I've found is that when you type a PRINT command, it does return a error
status "Print: no items selected" - I've tried to disable this, but my C
programming experience is minimal, so I'm sure I've just positioned my changes
incorrectly.

As far as the actual account goes. Our one is set up as follows:

Login Flags:  Disctly Restricted Disnewmail Dismail Captive
Access limited to Local and Remote 
Prclm = 0 (this stop spawning)


The account is set up with no WRITE protection for owner 

i.e. SET PROT=O:RE NEWSREADER.DIR

This enables you to forget about NEWSRC. altogether. Our NEWSRC. file is read
in by every session starting up, and when they exit, nothing can be written -
so the original remains. The file just contains our local newsgroups and
news.announce.newusers - a file with only 5 lines in it (in our case). This is
working fine - no file-access problems or anything. So the account needs to
contain only two files, NEWSRC. and LOGIN.COM.