Protection level on welcome page

The lists searchable archive appears to be down so I
apologize if this is already answered there.  I'm just
about ready to move to a new Maia 1.01 installation and in
testing noticed that if a user changes their 'Current
protection level' on the welcome screen to anything other
than High, it will disable filter settings even though in
the System Settings I checked 'No' on all the 'allow
users to enable/disable...' filter settings.  Is there an
easy way to lock this down, or simply remove/disable the
protection level settings on the welcome screen?

Thank you,
Greg Beckmeyer


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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:37 -0400, Greg Beckmeyer wrote:
>  if a user changes their 'Current protection level'
on the welcome screen to anything other than High, it will
disable filter settings even though in the System Settings I
checked 'No' on all the 'allow users to
enable/disable...' filter settings.  

I fixed that problem by changing the definition of what the
various
protection levels mean to what I wanted them to mean
(including not
disabling virus scanning). Even the "off"
protection level still has
virus scanning enabled. 

That works, but I would prefer it if this happened more
automatically,
because if I ever do an upgrade, I will again have to go
PHP-hacking.

Our policy is to not enable spam scanning by default, and to
prohibit
users from disabling virus scanning or bad attachment
scanning, as those
things are intended to protect the entire organization from
malware, not
just the end user. Spam really only affects the end user, so
we let
users decide whether or not to use the filters there. And by
making the
default spam filter policy be "no", nobody who
never logs in to the
Mailguard web site will ever have any of their mail
quarantined other
than malware without explicitly deciding to take that risk.

--Greg


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> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:37 -0400, Greg Beckmeyer
wrote:
>>  if a user changes their 'Current protection
level' on the welcome
>> screen to anything other than High, it will disable
filter settings
>> even though in the System Settings I checked 'No'
on all the 'allow
>> users to enable/disable...' filter settings.
>
> I fixed that problem by changing the definition of what
the various
> protection levels mean to what I wanted them to mean
(including not
> disabling virus scanning). Even the "off"
protection level still has
> virus scanning enabled.
>
> That works, but I would prefer it if this happened more
automatically,
> because if I ever do an upgrade, I will again have to
go PHP-hacking.

Those setting are in config.php, so I don't think you'd
have to hack
anything again.

The fact that the user level can override the admins
settings is a detail
on the todo list somewhere, but a workaround id to edit the
config.php
file to make the settings not offer a conflict.  The arrays
in the
config.php mirror the policy table.   And yesm a better
interface to this
is also on the todo list. 
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