nnrpd development

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Graeme Mathieson wrote:

> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, toon at vdpas.hobby.nl wrote:
> >
> > > How about support for SASL-type authentication?
>
> I have a half-finished spec somewhere on my laptop.  I'm not great at
> spec'ing stuff out though, so chances are pretty good it'll be full of
> holes and I'll need a little help finishing it off...

People are surely busy, but I'd at least be interested in taking a look at
it.  No idea who else is interested or where we should discuss it.


> While I'm at it, I've a half-finished patch to nnrpd/perm.c to allow a
> user to match multiple access stanzas (it'll merge the read: and post:
> group lists and take the first match for the rest of the options).  Are
> you planning on changing much in nnrpd/perm.c?

Hmm.  I don't think that will be a problem merging.

Although I worry a little bit about the semantics of readers.conf getting
even more hairy; I'd want to discuss adding that here and see what people
think first, just FYI.


> I'll try to get both to some reasonable state over the weekend, but I'm
> snowed under with work-stuff, so I'm not promising anything...

Sure.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org