a small issue wth nnrpd

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Wed May 4 16:42:19 UTC 2005


I am running nnrpd securely (port 563) from xinetd, and it seems to work 
well, except for one small thing: The user is prompted for a username 
and password AFTER subscribing to newsgroups, and before any posts have 
been seen or downloaded.

Is it possible to ask for username/password BEFORE the list of 
newsgroups to be subscribed to is downloaded?

Currently, I have the authentication in readers.conf:

auth outside {
         key: outside_the_firewall
         require_ssl: true
         auth: "ckpasswd -s"
}

access ALL {
         key: outside_the_firewall
         newsgroups: *,!junk,!control,!control.*,!usno.aa.test
}

access failure {
         newsgroups: !*
}


Any thoughts on how to do this?

Bill Tangren


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