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  • src/sbbs3/userdat.c

    From Rob Swindell@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/m on Sat Jan 21 19:51:00 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/6c0e423a38920f64abfb7013
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/userdat.c
    Log Message:
    Don't truncate a user's record if the default download protocol or gender are '\0'

    A blank download protocol field in a user.dat, when parsed, sets the 'prot' field
    of user_t to 0. When writing the record back to the user.dat, this would prematurely
    truncate all other fields off the user record (since strings in C are NUL terminated
    and we're using sprintf() to format the record and %c specifier for that field).

    The fix is to write a ' ' character instead of '\0' if the user_t.prot is '\0'. As part of this fix, I'm writing a '?' if a user_t.sex is '\0' (not sure if this
    is actually possible, but just as insurance). Those are the only 2 single-character
    user properties/fields today.

    Bug reported/debugged by Al of The Rusty Mailbox (1:153/757.2) - thank you!

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  • From Rob Swindell (in GitKraken)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Thu Mar 2 18:56:50 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/14125aa4b0aa0bf027f77361
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/userdat.c
    Log Message:
    The NoAccess* text.dat strings are not appropriate 'reason' codes

    These text.dat strings require an argument (and normally used with the NOACCESS @-code which uses the noaccess_str and noaccess_val member variables), so not appropriate to use as a reason code here. Use more generic (no argument) text.dat item numbers instead.

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  • From Rob Swindell (in GitKraken)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri Mar 10 19:59:26 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/edc931be6282acafdf043532
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/userdat.c
    Log Message:
    More strict login-by-user-number support (parsing logic)

    Before now, if the sysop enabled login-by-user-number and the specified login ID *started* with a decimal digit, it'd be treated as a user number and converted to a 32-bit integer. This could result in weird stuff, like this error I got today:
    SMTP ... !ERROR -2 getting data on user (7000401005.gc7gg@synchro.net)

    7,000,401,005 is clearly greater than the number of users in my user base
    on Vert, but since 7B is > 2.1B (0x7fffffff), the number would be parsed as
    a *negative* integer value and thus less than the total number of users in my userbase.

    An obvious solution would be to just turn of login-by-user-number, and for
    most systems, I suggest doing that (a system is less secure with it enabled).

    However, I want to leave the option for sysops (at least for now) and don't want this weird behavior so, a login by user number now requires that the entire login ID is just decimal numbers, nothing else, and the number is
    parsed as an unsigned integer. So yes, roll-over can happen for very high numbers (>4.2B), but in no instance will the number be parsed as negative and thus lead to an invalid user record look-up attempt.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Apr 3 14:07:29 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/e0979e270d947bc8a9e64e70
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/userdat.c
    Log Message:
    Fix GCC 9.4.0 warning reported by Nelgin

    warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments

    Weird this warning is happening for me with GCC 12.2 (debug or release build)

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon May 8 18:07:50 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/c1d6e2c764781b0400578600
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/userdat.c
    Log Message:
    The "user" directory is special: you don't need "access" to download from it.

    When sending a user-to-user file transfer, SBBS (since v3.19) will check that the file recipient will be able to download it (e.g. doesn't have restrictions preventing it) and this was failing for most (non-sysop) recipient users since they wouldn't normally meet the "access restrictions" of the user directory
    (by design).

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