Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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ctrl_access

This file is used to determine which hosts and users are granted permissions to control the server. By default, Changi tries to read this file from CHANGIWORKDIR, unless otherwise specified by option -c or CHANGICTRLACCESSFILE. If the server couldn't locate the file, any access is granted to the local host only, either through ip 127.0.0.1, the name specified by CHANGIHOSTNAME or the explicit name localhost.

Granting control access for other hosts than your local is potentially dangerous and should never be given to unprotected machines. Note, that intruders may be able to fake ip addresses and hostnames.

The file consists of one or more lines with three space separated fields each. Any line with character # in the first column is interpreted as a comment line and ignored. All other lines must follow this general format:

hostname|ip user permissions

Example:

#
# Comments are preceded by '#'
#
*.ping.de  *       cs
*.ping.de  harald  cCDFghmqrsY
localhost  harald  *
localhost  oliver  *
All users in domain ping.de are allowed to cancel articles in the local newsbase or query the current server mode.

Only user harald is also allowed to put the server in flushed, paused, throttled and back into normal mode from any host within domain ping.de. He may also force the server to reject or allow new client connections, shutdown the server or control the overview update task remotely.

No restrictions apply to users harald and oliver for controlling the server locally.


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URL: changi/manual/ctrlaccs.html
Created: 3 August 1996
Revised: 2 December 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de