NIS authentication

Matus "fantomas" Uhlar uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Apr 11 07:27:55 UTC 2000


-> > Hi, I'm using inn for internal use and different dept should not access
-> > every newsgroup.  I found the NIS support quite basic.  I added a
-> > functionnality in the nnrp.access file.  This allows you to specify a
-> > NIS user or group in the fourth field when a + is found in the third.  I
-> > find it quite useful for me, maybe you would like to use the following:

hmmm doesn't getpwnam() on NIS systems check for that ? I think getpwnam()
is the place where should suck checks be, not nnrpd;
what OS are you using ?

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