Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Limiting Host Access

If Changi can't find an access permission file, any access is granted for the local host only and no user authentication is needed.

In order to allow other hosts to access Changi, you must create a file named nntp_access in the Changi working directory using any text editor. See the chapter about the nntp_access file format for more information regarding the required contents of this file.

Changi processes the file in sequential order, so that entries at the end of this file may override previous ones. This is helpful while using wildcards within hostnames. You may, for example, grant read access to any host of a domain and override this default with posting or transfer permission for certain hosts of that domain.

The following example will permit any host to read. All hosts of domain ping.de get posting permission and only news.ping.de is able to transfer articles.

#
# This is a sample nntp_access file.
#
default         read    no
*.ping.de       read    post
news.ping.de    xfer    post

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URL: changi/manual/xcesshost.html
Created: 9 October 1996
Revised: 21 November 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de