readers.conf problems

[Basil Kruglov]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:45:53PM -0400, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> auth "admin" {
> 	hosts: "*"
> 	auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/passwd/isp-admin"
> 	key: admin
> }
> 
> auth "users" {
> 	hosts: "*"
> 	auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/passwd/isp"
> 	key: users
> 	default: "<anonymous>"
> }
> 
> access "admin" {
>         newsgroups: "*"
> 	access: "RPA" # Read, Post, Approve
> 	perlfilter: false
> }
> 
> access "users" {
> 	key: users
> 	users: "*"
> 	newsgroups: "*"
> 	access: "Read Post"
> }
> 
> access "no-passwd" {
> 	key: users
> 	users: "<anon>"
> 	newsgroups: "some-newsgroups.*"
> 	access: "Read"
> }

I was playing with something like this (using "keys" to point things
around), and getting the same error message as I used to the other day.

--
tin 1.5.8 release 20010221 ("Blue Water") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2001
Iain Le
a.
nntp.cifnet.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.2 (20010316 prerelease) ready
(posting ok).
Your server does not have Xref: in its XOVER information.
Tin will try to use XHDR XREF instead (slows down things a bit).
Reading keymap file...
Reading input history file...

servers active-file contains no newsgroups. Exiting.
--

I changed hosts: "*" in auth: "admin" to more specific ip block, just to
check if I can pass through and get into "users" or "no password" classes
but I still got the same error...

telnet server nntp
list active

gives nothing :/

Any ideas? 

(I did grep on this sort of error, found soething similar in 
"Authentication blues" thread, looking into it right now).

Thank you kindly for your help,
-Basil