readers.conf ( INN 2.3.0 )

[Josh Higham]

>Hi
>
>I'm new in 2.3.0 INN ...
>
>I need a readers.conf example at 2.3 to authorize
>all users of our domain to Read Post into our
>local newsgroups
>
>Our server has only local newsgroups ( no feed at all )


The example readers.conf in INN 2.3.0 tells how to do a basic setup:

##  For a news server that allows connections from anyone within a
##  particular domain or IP address range, just uncomment the "local" auth
##  group and the "local" access group below and adjust the hosts: and
##  default: parameters of the auth group and the users: parameter of the
##  access group for your local network and domain name.  That's all there
##  is to it.

[Both of the below entries were commented out.  I made a few slight changes,
so I could possibly have the syntax wrong on the hosts bit, but it's pretty
basic.  The entries should already be there; you just need to uncomment them
and change the host bit]

auth "local" {
    hosts: "*.example.com, example.com"
    default: "<local>@example.com"
}
[...]
access "local" {
    users: "<local>@example.com"
    newsgroups: "*"
}

Remember that it is probably worthwhile to have/leave the:

# The only groups enabled by default (the rest of this file is
# commented-out examples).  This assigns the identity of <localhost> to
# the local machine

auth "localhost" {
    hosts: "localhost, 127.0.0.1, stdin"
    default: "<localhost>"
}

# Grant that specific identity access to read and post to any newsgroup.

access "localhost" {
    users: "<localhost>"
    newsgroups: "*"
}

Even if you don't use news  reading capabilities locally, this will let you
troubleshoot locally.  Nothing worse then doing something like 'telnet
localhost 119' to try something and being denied access <g>

Josh
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