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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Restricting access to groups on a per user basis
Message-ID: <22924@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 22:32:34 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.162016.15172@bradley2.bradley.edu>
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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