INN Scalability

[Russ Allbery]

Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> writes:

> I'm looking for some information about scaling INN to Enterprise levels.
> One obvious question is how to provide authentication for a large
> userbase (1,000 - 100,000 users).  Plain text won't work :-) Radius
> might...  anyone else have anything to add to that equation.

Current INN ckpasswd supports PAM, so you can use pretty much anything you
want that takes passwords.  You can also provide your own authentication
plugin or binary that does pretty much anything you want.

We're actively working on a new NNTP standard that includes support for
SASL, and that support has already been included in the CVS HEAD of INN,
so that's available as a long-term option.

> I was surprised that even O'Reilly doesn't appear to have an updated
> "Managing Usenet" book - I actually have a copy, and found that it's
> really dated (in a lot of ways), so am left to peruse the Internet for
> reference material.  Anyone know of other published guides, etc.

David tried to get me interested in writing a newer version, but I just
don't have the time.

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