<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">What is the use case? Should your user "aaronngray" have access to both comp.* and private.*?</div><div dir="auto">If that is the case, you have to put "private.*,comp.*" in your list.</div><div dir="auto">I would try:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">auth password {<br> auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/db/passwords"</div><div dir="auto"> default: <norestriction><br>}<br><br>access private {<br> users: "aaronngray"<br> newsgroups: "comp.*,private.*"<br>}<br><br>access public {<br> users: "<norestriction>"<br> newsgroups: "comp.*"</div><div dir="auto">}</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Identities are assigned from the last matching line to the top.</div><div dir="auto">Note that an authenticated user with another login than yours will not be granted any access in the above case as there isn't any matching access line for him.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See the "in a nutshell" section and examples in:</div><div dir="auto"> https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/readers.conf.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto">-- <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 align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> </div><div>Date : 30/07/2024 20:08 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>À : inn-workers@lists.isc.org </div><div>Objet : Problem getting public as well as private groups to show on
Thunderbird </div><div><br></div></div>I have the following `readers.conf` :-<br><br>```<br>auth private {<br> key: "private"<br> auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/db/passwords"<br>}<br><br>access private {<br> key: "private"<br> users: "aaronngray"<br> newsgroups: "private.*"<br>}<br><br>auth public {<br> key: "public"<br> hosts: *<br> default: <norestriction><br>}<br>access public {<br> key: "public"<br> users: "<norestriction>"<br> newsgroups: "comp.*"<br>}<br>```<br>which will not show private newsgroups.<br><br>```<br>auth public {<br> key: "public"<br> hosts: *<br> default: <norestriction><br>}<br>access public {<br> key: "public"<br> users: "<norestriction>"<br> newsgroups: "comp.*"<br>}<br><br>auth private {<br> key: "private"<br> auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/db/passwords"<br>}<br><br>access private {<br> key: "private"<br> users: "aaronngray"<br> newsgroups: "private.*"<br>}<br>```<br>will only show private newsgroups !<br><br>Hope you can put me right on this !<br><br>Many thanks in advance,<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>