Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1491 news.admin:3068 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Newsgroup security follies, part II Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 88 22:50:00 GMT References: <657@cbnews.att.com> Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories Lines: 19 In article , I wrote: >As of this morning, the `elegant way' is to bring up 3.0 on your machine. >Private groups with posting *and reading* authorization check are now a fully >supported feature of the 3.0 beta; Patch #3 of the 3.0 news beta distribution slightly modifies the behavior I described in . Instead of one FASCIST symbol enabling both post and read control, with readers setgid and news database files created locked in both cases, there are now *two* symbols. FASCIST now has exactly the old behavior of controlling posting access. A new configuration symbol COMMUNIST enables per-newsgroup control of reading access. A new tool, locknews(8), permits secure edit of privilege group control entries in the authorizations file by group `gatekeepers' who need not be the news administrator. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: ..!{uunet,att,rutgers!vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Smail: eric@snark.UUCP Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718