INN Authentication etc

[bill davidsen]

In article <00da01c09dca$82282ec0$415281ac at philsnewerpc>,
Phil Dowling <phil at devaughn.com> wrote:

| I am sorry to bother you.  However myself and a collegue are running INN and it is all working fine. (ver 2.3.1)
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| Now I want to be able to restrict using password/username combinations some of the newsgroups.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| However we cannot get it working.  Any thoughts ?

  You had one useful post on this, I won't duplicate it. However, you
can also writh/get/use an authenticator which uses an internal table not
related to accounts on the machine.

| 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 ?

Auth works in the browsers, I haven't had a chance to shake out all the
possible auth stuff in nnrpd, but that should be stable.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.