LDAP with INN

[Dan Foster]

Hot Diggety! Andrija Gencel was rumored to have wrote:
> 
> a simple question:
> 
> Is INN an LDAP, directory-enabled, application?

Not out of the box, no.
 
> Can I use my LDAP to make authentication to the newsgroups on the INN
> server?

Yes...rather easily, actually.

> And how does it works?

Usually as trivial as writing a short (100 line?) PerLDAP program that
then gets run every time a reader connects and wants to authenticate itself.

Take a look at the sample one (nnrpd_auth.pl), and change it to make easy
LDAP calls to look up an user's password or some specific attribute within
an user's LDAP object, or something.

-Dan