Re: INN2 user authentication against system users
The Doctor <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:27:35PM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote:
> Hello INN2 list.
> I'm a INN2 newbie user. :-)
>
> I've setup INN2 on my VPS server with nnrpd nntps(563) port,
> ckpasswd authenticating against a plain text file database,
> my readers.conf fraction reads:
>
> auth "aname" {
> require_ssl: true
> ### format [email protected]:passwd_hash
> auth: "ckpasswd -f /etc/news/newsusers"
> }
>
> access "aname" {
> users: "*"
> newsgroups: "*"
> access: RPA
> }
>
> I've successfully authenticate against the newsusers file,
> I tried to authenticate against system users but no success.
> I don't want to maintain a seperate set of news users,
> how do I do authentication against the system users,
> like /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?
>
> The readers.conf man page is complicated, I don't quite understand.
> Glad to get some example configulation. :-)
>
That too would be nice. What I have done
is to use VPN and that the user has access to INN.
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