my distaste for readers.conf grows

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Theodoropoulos <paul at atgi.net> writes:

> I'm finding the readers.conf structure and syntax to be a pain in the arse.

> We have numerous IP blocks, and numerous domains that are
> connecting. I'm finding it cumbersome (and confusing) to try to set up
> the auth and access stuff for each possible connecting 'realm'. I've no
> need for any fancy authentication - I'd really like a nice terse config
> file like the old nnrp.access...

> Is there any way to mimic that old nnrp.access behaviour? Something that
> simply grants read/post access to any host in the range 206.58.248/21
> and 216.174.200/19?

If you're still looking for a way to do this, the following should work
fine:

    auth "atg-users" {
        hosts: "206.58.248.0/21, 216.174.200.0/19"
        default: "<atg-users>"
    }

    access "atg-users" {
        users: "<atg-users>"
        newsgroups: "*"
    }

If it doesn't, well, it's supposed to, and I'll try to fix it.  ;)

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