diff -urP silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/command.c silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/command.c
--- silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/command.c	2003-03-03 10:56:04.000000000 -0600
+++ silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/command.c	2004-06-10 17:03:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -1729,6 +1729,7 @@
 {
   SilcServerCommandContext cmd = (SilcServerCommandContext)context;
   SilcServer server = cmd->server;
+  SilcClientEntry client = (SilcClientEntry)cmd->sock->user_data;
   SilcServerID *server_id;
   unsigned char *tmp;
   SilcUInt32 tmp_len;
@@ -1738,6 +1739,14 @@
 
   SILC_SERVER_COMMAND_CHECK(SILC_COMMAND_STATS, cmd, 1, 1);
 
+  /* Check whether client has the permissions. */
+  if (!(client->mode & SILC_UMODE_SERVER_OPERATOR) &&
+      !(client->mode & SILC_UMODE_ROUTER_OPERATOR)) {
+    silc_server_command_send_status_reply(cmd, SILC_COMMAND_PRIV_CONNECT,
+                                          SILC_STATUS_ERR_NO_SERVER_PRIV, 0);
+    goto out;
+  }
+
   /* Get Server ID */
   tmp = silc_argument_get_arg_type(cmd->args, 1, &tmp_len);
   if (!tmp) {
diff -urP silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/server.h silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/server.h
--- silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/server.h	2003-03-03 10:56:04.000000000 -0600
+++ silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/server.h	2004-06-10 13:10:28.000000000 -0500
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
 #define SILC_ROUTER 1
 #define SILC_BACKUP_ROUTER 2
 
+#define SILC_MASK_STATS 1
+
 /* Default parameter values */
 
 /* Connection retry timeout. We implement exponential backoff algorithm
diff -urP silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/server_util.c silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/server_util.c
--- silc-server-0.9.18-orig/silcd/server_util.c	2003-03-03 10:56:04.000000000 -0600
+++ silc-server-0.9.18/silcd/server_util.c	2004-06-11 08:28:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -1518,6 +1518,7 @@
 			  ("Your host is %s, running version %s",
 			   server->server_name, server_version));
 
+ if (!SILC_MASK_STATS) {
   if (server->server_type == SILC_ROUTER) {
     SILC_SERVER_SEND_NOTIFY(server, sock, SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NONE,
 			    ("There are %d clients, %d servers and %d "
@@ -1554,6 +1555,7 @@
 			     server->stat.my_clients,
 			     server->stat.my_channels));
   }
+ }
 
   if (server->stat.server_ops || server->stat.router_ops)
     SILC_SERVER_SEND_NOTIFY(server, sock, SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NONE,