Setup readers.conf

Bent Nielsen bent-nielsen at jyde.dk
Fri Mar 29 03:15:56 UTC 2002


Dear Jeffrey.
YOU ARE THE BEST - now it works as I would like it to, many thanks.

All the best
Bent
At 21:52 28-03-2002 -0500, you wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Bent Nielsen wrote:
>
> > >Did you see my latest suggestion to put quotes around "<FAIL>"?
> >
> > First I got quotes around "<FAIL>" in my readers.conf.
>
>And?  Can you access groups without a password?
>
>
> > >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.
>
>I don't understand.  I thought we were agreed that this was what you
>wanted.
>
>Oh, wait.
>
>     What happens now:  "list" shows no groups
>
>     What you want:  "list" returns 480
>
>Correct?
>
>
>Hmm.  Ok, I think if you get rid of the <FAIL> idea entirely (delete the
>"default" line from the auth block and delete the entire <FAIL> access
>block) you will get that behavior.
>
>
>--
>Jeffrey M. Vinocur
>jeff at litech.org




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