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From: he@sup.uucp (Helge Oldach)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: How do I prevent outsiders from posting??
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Date: 21 Mar 91 15:02:52 GMT
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mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya) writes:
| 	The title pretty much sez. it.  For the last week or
| so, some dweeb calling himself Stuart Weiner has been posting
| stuff from our central news machine. If (that's a small if), this
| is from an external site, how do I prevent this?
| 	I've already set up my nntp access_file to lock out
| any non-NotreDame machine from reading/posting.  Anything else I can do???

Try to compile NNTP 1.5.11 with the per-user authorization scheme enabled
(#define AUTH). Although this will be defined in the NNTP 2.0 protocol spec
eventually, it should work now.
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Helge Oldach   he@sup.stollmann.de    he@sephh.hanse.de