brad@ds3.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) (11/14/90)
Are the NNTP people working on a way so that you can restrict a news group to certain people (on certain machines)? If not can we get it started? I would be willing to help if needed. Discussion anyone? brad smith brad@bradley.edu
brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) (11/14/90)
In article <1990Nov13.162016.15172@bradley2.bradley.edu> brad@ds3.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes: >Are the NNTP people working on a way so that you can restrict a news >group to certain people (on certain machines)? If not can we get >it started? I would be willing to help if needed. Yes. The V2 spec contains a transaction ("AUTHINFO USER userid") that allows an NNTP client to tell the server who is running it, so that the server can then make a decision (probably on some locally-defined set of access control lists) as to whether a particular command is to be allowed. In your case, that would be whether a "GROUP groupname" command would be permitted for certain values of <groupname>. The RFC is currently undergoing review by Jon Postel. Dunno when it'll be ready for publication. - Brian