Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!minya!jc
From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascists of a different kind
Message-ID: <481@minya.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 21:23:58 GMT
References: <290@orange2.qtp.ufl.edu>
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Keywords: fascist news restriction

In article <290@orange2.qtp.ufl.edu>, bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
> We have a local newsgroup for which we want to restrict posting to
> only a few people.  Using a moderator is not feasible.  Has anyone
> implemented something that would be the logical complement of FASCIST
> - i.e. group g accepts only postings from users x, y, and z rather
> than FASCIST's user x is only alowed to post to groups a, b, c ...
> 
More general:  I've had numerous questions about the feasibility of having
a newsgroup on a small set of machines, that is only accessible to a certain
set of users.  It would be convenient if the permission could be given to
a group in /etc/group, as usual.  It's pretty easy to restrict the newsgroup's
directory permissions, but this doesn't quite work.  First, usenet programs
themselves are routinely run setuid and setgid to 'news' permissions; this
user/group combination MUST have access, or the news doesn't work at all.

So is there a way to do it, short of the usual hacking in of Yat Another
Local Feature?

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John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)