a small issue wth nnrpd

[Bill Tangren]

Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

No, that's it. I have a separate readers.con (that is used by a second 
nnrpd daemon) that handles port 119 traffic behind the firewall.