<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hi Aaron,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Could you try to run ckpasswd by hand to see whether it reports any failure. It is explained in the Examples section in:</div><div dir="auto"> https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/ckpasswd.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is generating the dbm password file with the Perl script from the description of the -d flag working better? Maybe the format is different than the one "htdbm -cbB" generates.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You may also try with -f (see the related option in the manual page) as long as -d doesn't work as expected.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto" id="composer_signature">-- <div dir="auto">Julien</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto" align="left"><div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> </div><div>Date : 30/07/2024 01:14 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>À : inn-workers@lists.isc.org </div><div>Objet : Problems getting private password protected group working </div><div><br></div></div>I am having issues getting private password protected groups working.<br><br>I have set my readers.conf file to the following :-<br>```<br>auth private {<br> auth: "ckpasswd -s"<br>}<br>access private {<br> users: "aaronngray"<br> newsgroups: "private.*"<br>}<br>```<br><br>but Thunderbird is complaining "login to server<br>nntp.climateemergence.global with username aaronngray failed."<br><br>The password is definitely correct in both cases, but I am unable to<br>authenticate.<br><br>I tried using htdbm -cbB /usr/local/news/db/passwords aaronngray ********<br><br>and :-<br><br>auth private {<br> auth: "ckpasswd -d /usr/local/news/db/passwords"<br>}<br><br>as well.<br><br>Hoping someone can point me in the right directions with this.<br><br>Aaron<br>-- <br>Aaron Gray<br><br>Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language<br>Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.<br>-- <br>inn-workers mailing list<br>inn-workers@lists.isc.org<br>https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/inn-workers<br></body></html>