Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!amdahl!rtech!llama!daveb From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: private newsgroups Message-ID: <2333@rtech.rtech.com> Date: 20 Jul 88 18:12:29 GMT References: <657@cbnews.att.com> Sender: news@rtech.rtech.com Reply-To: daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower) Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA Lines: 19 In article eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >In article <657@cbnews.att.com>, tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) writes: >> My question, then, is as follows: Is there a more elegant way to implement >> private newsgroups under 2.11 B news? These private newsgroups won't >> be transmitted anywhere else -they'll only live on this one machine. >> The problem lies in that only a certain class of users should be allowed >> to read and/or post to them. > >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; the code and documentation changes will go >to the beta sites this afternoon as part of patch #2. ... How will these 3.0 security features work in an nntp environment? This may be an unsolvable problem, but it seems worth mentioning. -dB "Ready when you are Raoul!" {amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun, hoptoad}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.com <- FINALLY!