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[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

> | I've added this to doc/compliance-nntp.  It's a fairly low-priority
> | problem, since the reason why innd behaves this way is because it
> | doesn't care about the username at all.  innd AUTHINFO support is a
> | *very* simplified affair, and I'm not sure how widely it's used.

>   More rather than less, I think. With the advent of DHCP it has become
> harder to tell a legitimate user by IP, and thus more use of AUTHINFO is
> likely. Haven't looked at how well the Radius and LDAP auth work below
> it, I centainly was satisfied using my own auth module and method.

Yes, but usually that's for readers.  I was referring to the innd AUTHINFO
support, which ignores usernames, only cares about passwords, has no
module support, and only checks against passwords in incoming.conf.

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