user authentication and access

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> In principle, there's no reason a server couldn't *show* a group in the
> list of groups, but prohibit access to the group without a password.
> However, INN doesn't support that functionality.

> (Anybody think we should add it?  Might be interesting, and perhaps not
> too difficult.)

How would it be done?  Adding a third readers.conf parameter parallel to
read and post called view?  Hm.

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