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Re: [ECS] Phone Box Passwords Mark Gilmore Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:26:55 -0400

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Hi Steve,
Frankly, I'm too exhausted right now to write a response :-),
but if you can call me tomorrow, I'll gladly walk you thru it.
In the meantime, see the PHONE-BOX Item Type.
-- 
Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026
Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST


"Lanter, Steven SB SNORC" wrote:
> 
> Hello Folks,
> 
> Could someone tell me how would you set up phone boxes for individual users
> with their own passwords?  Passwords for users that wouldn't allow access to
> other things.  I'm still looking at using ECS (seems like the best around,
> by far), and this would be one thing I would look at using if I started
> using it.  Would it be as simple as creating password items named for the
> individual box numbers?  Or is it even possible?
> 
> Thanks, Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Gilmore [SMTP:omnip@usit.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 9:42 PM
> > To:   ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject:      [ECS] Beta upload
> >
> > http://www.usit.com/omnip/ecsb.zip (BETA) has been uploaded,
> > and incorporates the changes below.
> >
> > Note: I have made some enhancements to the internal logic
> > which supports SPEAK->MESSAGES. I tested it pretty thoroughly
> > and expect no problems.
> >
> > I will be uploading a new LINUX beta tomorrow
> > (with sound and TTS support).
> >
> >       4.4.006 (07/30/00)
> >
> >     50)       If a TV-show matches multiple favorite records (in
> > TVLFAV.TXT),
> >       then TVL4 (which generates the TV-GUIDE) will now list the
> >       "most important" processing code found ('R' being the most
> >       and 'f' being the least).
> >
> >     51)       A bug has been corrected which could cause screen-captures
> > to
> > fail.
> >
> >     52)       I discovered that if our JAVA classes (e.g. Ecsio.class)
> > dumped
> >       status info (to the JAVA console) when connected to the Internet,
> >       that it slowed the init procedure to a crawl. So these dumps will
> >       now occur only when debug is on.
> >
> >     53)       A bug has been corrected which would cause an erroneous
> > error
> >       message ("Access violation") to be reported when logging out of
> >       a WWW session.
> >
> > *   54)       In the "TVL DL" Event of EXAMPLE.CFG, I have corrected a
> >       recently-introduced bug:
> >       This line:
> >               If      TVL Enabled             Is Not          False
> >       Should read like this:
> >               If      TVL Enabled             Is              False
> >
> >     55)       Given the facts that Netscape-5/LINUX does not support
> > scrolling
> >       drop downs and that the beta version Netscape-6/LINUX is EXTREMELY
> >       sluggish, I have eliminated the use of drop downs in all ECS
> >       editing web-pages (ECS now uses the selection frame as is used
> >       for the Group monitor page).
> >
> >     56)       If you request an ECS WWW page when NOT logged in, and an
> > empty
> > password
> >       is applicable to that session, then ECS will now log you in and
> > return
> >       that page (rather the main page).
> >
> >     57)       A bug has been corrected which prevented the Message
> > window's
> >       "DEL REDUNDANT" button from working.
> >
> >     58)       The Ecsio.class applet now disconnects from the IP address
> > when
> >       ECS exits (under LINUX, the address was not freed on a refresh).
> > --
> > Mark Gilmore
> > Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> > http://www.usit.com/omnip
> > 423-745-0026
> > Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST

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