Moderated groups and approvals

[Russ Allbery]

"Prasad K. Dharmasena" <pkd at umd.edu> writes:

> rec.guns group's moderator is local.  He posts approved articles by
> adding the Approved line in the headers and calling inews directly.
> This set-up has worked for him w/ the old server for many years.  With
> the new server (new hostname/IP) even after setting the right NNTPSERVER
> env variable, he is unable to post approved articles.  He gets this
> error:
>
>   inews: cannot send article to server: 
>       441 You are not allowed to approve postings
>
>   (that error is in nnrpd/post.c file)
>
> I can't find anything in the .../news/etc/* files that specifies that he
> is the moderator.  How does one "tell" nnrpd whose approved articles it
> is supposed to accept?

In the relevant readers.conf access block for his connections, you need to
grant access to post approved articles.  You do this by adding "A" to the
access: key, or if it's not present, add something like:

    access: RPA

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