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From: netmgr@csc.fi (Pekka Kytolaakso)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: NEWS v5.9 nntp_server
Message-ID: <11.25321acf@csc.fi>
Date: 10 Oct 89 16:37:35 GMT
References: <10.253106ce@csc.fi>
Organization: Center for Scientific Computimg
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In article <10.253106ce@csc.fi>, netmgr@csc.fi (Pekka Kytolaakso) writes:
> I've now changed our newsserver to NEWS version 5.9. The server (it's main work
> is mail (PMDF) and EARN (JNET)is a Microvax II with VMS 5.1 and CMU TCP/IP v6.4
> .
> 
> 
> I'm using nn (NoNews if Good News) as an agent to read news on a Sun
> workstation. The POST command of the server seem's to have changed.
> It now REQUIRES message-id, date and path headers that mini-inews, that comes
> with nntp.1.5 dosnt supply, and this causes POST/Followup to fail.
> 
> There also is some trouble with the access check. I have nntp_access.news (or
> whatecr it was) that allows everyone to read/post/transfer to/from any
> newsgroup. When I try mini-inews with a file that has the needed headerfields
> added the tranfser end in 'News not posted/posting to newsgroup no allowed'.
> Is there some other accesscheck than the accessfile? I'll try to debug
> the server to see what the problem is and will report if i find something
> wrong.

I did some debugging and found out, that the trouble is in handling headers.
i didn't find the reason but the symptom is that the newsline (\n) character
is left in the lines when they are put into headers[] array. It also is
there still when auth_list() get;s the newsgroup name in gl. When this
name is handled with util_cvrt it changes  '\n' to '_' and this makes
that the group doesnt exist. For example:

Newsgroups: sfnet.tets\n (finnish local testgroup)
gives auth_list('sfnet.tets\n',...) which then does 
      getgroupbyname('sfnet.test_') when it should do the
      test for sfnet.test.

Hope this helps.
Regards                  Pekka Kyt|laakso              
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