Authenticating readers with INN 2.2.2

[Russ Allbery]

Rushi Desai <Rushi at mail.com> writes:

> All I want is a standalone news server to serve local newsgroups.
> Anyone can access the groups from anywhere but should get Read access
> only.  If the user authenticates himself, nnrpd should check his auth
> with system (shadowed) passwd file and grant Read+Post access.

I don't believe that it's possible to get this effect using the
authentication system in INN 2.2; it's just not set up for this.  It may
be possible to do it with the Perl authentication, but I haven't tried.

In INN 2.3 it should be possible, although it will require some working
through readers.conf.  INN 2.3 also supports a separate ckpasswd program
that you can make setgid shadow without having to set nnrpd that way.
There was some recent discussion of how to implement this with
readers.conf on this mailing list.

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