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[Russ Allbery]

Oguz YILMAZ <oguz at ieee.metu.edu.tr> writes:

> I have installed inn to my server but I have a silly problem.  I want to
> open local newsgroups. I have nothing to do with USENET.  I was able to
> open newsgroups by ctlinnd but when someone wanted to reach our server
> by NNTP from outside, inn asks for password.

> What is this password?
> How can I disable password?

This was a very old message that I had sitting in the unanswered pile.
Are you still having this problem?  It sounds like you have nnrp.access
configured so as to require a password for reading those groups, or at
least not giving everyone you want to have access to those groups the
right access.

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