Re: Adding Authinfo Support

Starling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.sn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aleksey Nogin <[email protected]> writes:

: On 09.12.2002 21:01, Starling wrote:
: 
: I wrote an "external" authenticator for sn based on PAM (which allows
: a great variety of choices as to where to get the auth information
: from) 

Oh, *looks* oh, neat so it uses execve to call snntpd with environment
variables.  That's a cool idea, except you can't authenticate after
initializing the connection.  My fav' newsserver allows reading by
all, but only posting after an AUTHINFO is sent.  I thought about
basing on PAM, but considering I don't even know how to use the darn
thing, it'll have to wait for the next patch.  ;)

: And note that the FreshMeat entry
: for sn does give this information...

My bad, I must have missed it.  No worries though, it was a learning
experience.


Starling
Whose own patch can't prevent reading of posts yet.
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