INN Authentication etc

[Phil Dowling]

Hi all

I am sorry to bother you.  However myself and a collegue are running INN and it is all working fine. (ver 2.3.1)

Now I want to be able to restrict using password/username combinations some of the newsgroups.

However since INN has got rid of the nnrp.access file this seems to be an absolute nightmare for us.  We are now looking at having to use the readers.conf solutions.

Problem is that we do not have a CLUE on how to do it.  We are not massivly experienced with Unix being normally Windows types so we are kinda flailing about at the moment.

I have read all the manuals and pretty much understand the concept.  We want the auth program to read our shadow password DB and authenticate people in this manner.

However we cannot get it working.  Any thoughts ?

I am testing it using outlook express and Agent to see if the auth works.  Does this auth system work with those readers do you know ?

Many thanks in advance for all your help !

All The Best


Phil Dowling

phil at devaughn.com