Newby question

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Francesco wrote:

> - are there some critical security issue using INN? Is there a way to
> protect INN server?

There actually is an issue in INN 2.4.0, so if you installed that version, 
you'll want to upgrade to 2.4.1.  Other than that, INN is "safe" in terms 
of not having your server compromised.  However, you still need to 
configure your server to match your expectations (for example, if you make 
it open posting, people will spam via your server).


> - i have configured a system which accept posting and reading by
> authenticate users with ckpasswd; can i see to INN to give different
> permission on various newsgroups according to the authenticated users? As
> example, i would like to give to "Fred" read/post acces to some newsgroups
> and to "John" read/post access to other newsgroups.

Yes.  The readers.conf documentation should be pretty clear on how to do 
this (with multiple access blocks)...do you have specific questions?

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org