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Subject:Re: Different access policies for external and internal users.
Date:Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:01:37 +0300
From:"Igor I. Shulz" <ishulz@no-spam.mail.ru>
Newsgroups:news.software.nntp
Thanx!!! It works fine !!!

"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff@litech.org> wrote in message
news:bjqd27$eoi$2@puck.litech.org...
> In article <d6ef1c1f.0309110153.f289c54@posting.google.com>,
> ishulz <ishulz@mail.ru> wrote:
> >I'm trying to permit access for internal.* groups only for internal
> >users, and passworded access for extrnal.* groups for all users.
> >
> >auth ext {
> >    hosts: "*, !localhost, !127.0.0.1, !stdin, !192.168.0.0/24"
> >    auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/etc/passwd"
> >    default: other_ext
> >}
> >
> >auth int {
> >    hosts: "localhost, 127.0.0.1, stdin, 192.168.0.0/24"
> >    auth: "ckpasswd -f /usr/local/news/etc/passwd"
> >    default: other
> >}
>
> In both of these cases, after sending username and password, the
> assigned identity will be the username given.  So in both cases,
> after authenticating, this is the line that will match:
>
> >    users: !other_ext,*
>
>
> Now, I think you're the first person I've *ever* seen post here
> who actually *should* be using the key: parameter in
> readers.conf.  Check the documentation on that, and just ask
> again if you're still confused.
>
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey M. Vinocur
> jeff@litech.org