inn2.3/inn2.2

[Russ Allbery]

OlivierS <teardrop at wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Does inn2.3 will allow to protect a newsgroup with a password and let
> the normal users which havent the password to read the others newgroups
> which arent protected ... ( it doesnt work with inn 2.2 )

I'm pretty sure this works in INN 2.2; it's certainly advertised to work
and I could have sworn that I'd heard confirmed reports of people who have
it working.

> foo.com:Read:::*
> foo.com:Post:::*,!local.foo

> To allow foo.com to read all the newsgroup but not to write on
> local.foo, I cant manage to do it with inn2.2 cause only the last line
> is considered by nnrpd ...

Sure, they're identical.  What happens if you provide a username and
password?

    *.foo.com:Read Post:username:password:*
    *.foo.com:Read:::*,!local.foo

The first line should be ignored unless the client has authenticated
already.

Anyway, yes, this definitely does work in INN 2.3; you make sure the
authenticated connections get a different user string than the
unauthenticated connections and then write separate access groups matching
one or the other.

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