nnrp conf

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Tue Dec 16 22:39:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 22:08 +0100, Julien ÉLIE wrote:


> 
> I suggest the following wording for the documentation.
> Would it be clear enough or should something else be explained?
> 
> 
> «
> 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: "<EXAMPLE>"
>      }
> 
>      access full {
>          newsgroups: *
>      }
> 
> Note that the access realm has no users: key and therefore applies
> to any user identity (in this example, the user identity that will be


I would suggest adding the  users: <EXAMPLE> key in the access section,
I can see how some may, and I also did at first read, read this as allow
anyone to read/write any group, perhaps its where OP went wrong
somewhere and found himself with an open system, so making it crystal
clear for those not "familiar" with inn would be better.

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