NIS authentication

[Russ Allbery]

Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:

>>> 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 ?

My understanding of the original message is that he wants to not just
allow any user who can authenticate as a NIS user to read news, but rather
those users who can authenticate *and* who are members of a specific NIS
group.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>