Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Limiting User Access

Hand in hand with host access permission is user authentication. If any of the permission keywords (READ, XFER, BOTH and POST) in nntp_access starts with an uppercase letter, then Changi queries the connecting client for user authentication and validates the response with entries found in a file named user_access. In this case the client must support the AUTHINFO protocol extension.

Changi may also use the system password file etc\passwd to validate the userid and its corresponding encrypted password. However, this option is not available in the international release.

For further details, see the description of user_access in the file format section.


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