nnrp conf

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Edwardo,

> in the virtual brewery example, we will allow any NNTP client in the
> Virtual Brewery domain to both read and post to al$
> 
> # Any host with the Virtual Brewery domain may Read and Post to all
> # newsgroups
> *.vbrew.com:RP::*

It is the first example in the readers.conf documentation:

     Probably the simplest useful example of a complete readers.conf,
     this gives permissions to read and post to all groups to any 
connections
     from the "example.com" domain, and no privileges for anyone 
connecting
     elsewhere:

     auth example.com {
         hosts: "*.example.com, example.com"
         default: <LOCAL>
     }

     access full {
         newsgroups: *
     }



> # Virtual Brewery - nnrp.access
> # We will allow public reading of all newsgroups except our private 
> one.
> *:R:::*,!rec.crafts.brewing.private

And this one is the second example in our documentation:

     If you have some systems that should only have read-only access to
     the server, you can modify the example above slightly by adding an
     additional auth and access group:

     auth lab {
         hosts: "*.lab.example.com"
         default: <LAB>
     }

     access lab {
         users: <LAB>
         read: *
     }




> this methods so easy a child cant get it wrong why for love of god was 
> changed?

I do not understand well how you would have wanted the examples provided
with INN to be more clearer than that.
You just have to use "*.vbrew.com" instead of "*.example.com" and
"*,!rec.crafts.brewing.private" instead of "*".  It is exactly what
you already wrote in nnrp.access!




> and my boss not threaten fire me like now
> for letting competition ISP customer use our server.

Well, you just had to use the first two examples shipped in the 
readers.conf
documentation...
     http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/readers.conf.html#S5

In case you have another needs that are not covered in the examples,
do not hesitate to tell and I will be happy to add them to the 
documentation.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE