a small issue wth nnrpd

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On May 4, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Bill Tangren wrote:

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

Yeah.  It's just one of those readers.conf subtlties that are hard to 
get right.


> 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: !*
> }

Is that your entire readers.conf, or did you omit portions?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org