Setup readers.conf

Bent Nielsen bent-nielsen at jyde.dk
Fri Mar 29 02:33:08 UTC 2002


Sorry for sending to your personally mail Jeffrey and for my bad english, 
it seems that I have not clarified what I want.

>Did you see my latest suggestion to put quotes around "<FAIL>"?  (I'm
>really at a loss, it looks like that should work.)

First I got quotes around "<FAIL>" in my readers.conf.

> > Just to understand how the readers.conf works. Will this fail-statement
> > allow users to access the server, but when retrieving the list of groups it
> > will retrieve zero groups or will it not allow access?
>
>It will allow access but show no groups.  However, that only happens
>*before* the authentication (and thus is what you want).  Once somebody
>tries to authenticate and gives a bad username, the connection is closed
>immediately.

No this is not what I want. My readers.conf do work and disconnect when the 
username or password are not found in my password file.

I want that authentication are required on every connection else the 
connection is close immediately and I cannot find a way to setup the 
readers.conf so this is done.

At 21:06 28-03-2002 -0500, you wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Bent Nielsen wrote:
>
> > I found and have read this thread, but it does not work.
>
>Did you see my latest suggestion to put quotes around "<FAIL>"?  (I'm
>really at a loss, it looks like that should work.)
>
>
> > Just to understand how the readers.conf works. Will this fail-statement
> > allow users to access the server, but when retrieving the list of groups it
> > will retrieve zero groups or will it not allow access?
>
>It will allow access but show no groups.  However, that only happens
>*before* the authentication (and thus is what you want).  Once somebody
>tries to authenticate and gives a bad username, the connection is closed
>immediately.
>
>
> > auth all {
> >          hosts: *
> >          auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/db/newspass"
> >          default: <FAIL>
> > }
>
>Note that you need an access group for the other users in here as well.
>
>
> > access fail {
> >          users: "<FAIL>"
> >          newsgroups: !*
> > }
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Jeffrey M. Vinocur
>jeff at litech.org




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