Perl access hook
Justin Harrison
inn at astyrrian.com
Wed Oct 13 13:44:45 UTC 2004
Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey M. Vinocur [mailto:jeff at litech.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:04 AM
> To: Justin Harrison
> Cc: inn-workers at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Perl access hook
>
> On Oct 13, 2004, at 1:42 AM, Justin Harrison wrote:
>
> >> From: Jeffrey M.Vinocur [mailto:jeff at litech.org]
> >>
> >> On Oct 10, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Justin Harrison wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've got a perl access hook [...group in read: but not post:] The
> >>> client never receives the newsgroup in newsgroup lists,
> however. How
> >>> do I return a read only newsgroup in a perl access hook?
> >>
> >> Does your client see other groups (e.g. those listed in both
> >> read: and post:)?
> >
> > Yes. It only sees the ones listed in read: and post:. I
> haven't tested
> > just listing something in post, but I'd imagine by design
> that doesn't
> > work too well..
>
> I just did a quick test of this and it seemed to work the way
> we both expect (when viewed by telnet to port 119). I'm not
> sure what's going on now. The behavior you're seeing
> shouldn't be newsreader-dependent, but if you have an
> alternate newsreader around can you check with that?
Happens with Agent and Outlook Express. Watching the connection via a packet
sniffer shows the newsgroup isn't sent...
>
> > I've resorted to returning:
> >
> > Read: !*
> > Post: !*
> >
> > Then the clients seem to authenticate...I couldn't find
> many details
> > on how or why that works.
>
> I'm actually a little surprised it does, without the clients
> having an Always Send Authentication Information type setting
> enabled, but as long as it works for you...
Yeah - I was bewildered when it wasn't working - then I added some extra
logging and realized the username was <unauthenticated> and that my code was
ignoring unauthenticated users..
>
> --
> Jeffrey M. Vinocur
> jeff at litech.org
>
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