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Holger Freyther zecke at selfish.orgOn Friday 12 June 2009 06:06:36 David A. Burgess wrote: > Yes. This is very useful feature in some legitimate applications, > like handset testing and disaster relief. It also makes it very easy > to accidentally block cellular service for random subscribers in your > test area if you forget that it is turned on. If you put a feature > like this on you system, you might also consider delivering a test > message to the newly attached subscriber telling them what has > happened. Otherwise the system too easily lends itself to abuse. Good idea, we added this switch as sort of hack for the 25c3 to send invitations. So what we could do would be let the "unauthorized" user in, assign an extension from a pool, send the user a SMS with his number. thanks for the hint z.