Re: Validate a Sysop

> > Re: Validate a Sysop
> > > Ok, Is there a way how I can validate a visiting sysop. With out have him
> > > her send me an email. or that I have to take time out to telnet in thier
> > > and validate that they are who they say they are.
> > > Or I just want to validate a visiting sysop. Some thing simple.
> > > any one have any ideas
> > There is an Auto-Sysop Validation setting in the MAIN VADV Configuration
> > (Screen 3).  You can set it to give them a certain Security Level and Time
> > Limit, but it doesn't verify that they really have a board.  Only thing I
> > believe you can do just leave it at that, or write a script for during sign
> > that will ask the user some questions like what is the BBS Name, what is th
> > telnet address to it, etc, and then if they answer the questions it will
> > Auto-Validate them, but if they refuse to answer it leaves their SL and Tim
> > the same as any other new user.  People can still abuse it and just say the
> > are a sysop to get the free access, so in my case, I don't have this option

Does anyone know the error codes or if it even gives them for telnet.exe?
you could run a shell that called telnet.exe with the url given to see
if a telnet server exists at the url.