502 You have no permission to talk

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Wilson, Sue LCC wrote:

> some of my users are getting this error ... is it dns or readers.conf  =
> ... or
> 
> I don't see anything in the logs ... is there a good place to look??
> ....
> I'm receiving the following error when trying to access the news server:
>
> 502 You have no permission to talk.  Goodbye.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

If there's nothing in the logs, you're looking in the wrong logs or have 
configured syslog incorrectly.  Every connection should be logged in 
news.notice.

This is probably a readers.conf issue of some kind.  If you don't 
understand what users your readers.conf allows or disallows, you need to 
read the manpage again, and perhaps enable news.debug logging so you get 
more details of readers.conf being used.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org