Re: PHP with NNTP?

Daniel Brown wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: >> >> If required, authentication is done via NNTP. The nntp servers can >> be set up to require authentication for some or more groups, for >> instance for closed user communities. >> If you check your newsreader, you'll no doubt find a place to >> tick "authentication required" and to enter userid and password. > > Correct, but to my understanding, NNTP only matches the data for > authentication (using PAM, LDAP, etc.), just like SSH, most FTP, and > other services. What I sent didn't mean that NNTP can't use > authentication, but rather that Crayon was right in stating that NNTP > doesn't track the users itself. > I'll admit, though, that I could be wrong on this. Every once in > a very great while, it's been known to happen. :-\ Well, NNTP (the protocol) certainly has a userid/password concept, and so does e.g. INN, the news-server I'm using. I'm sure INN _could_ use a PAM-module for interfacing Linux access control, but the straight forward config with restricted access is done with userid/passwd files generated by htpasswd (from apache). /Per Jessen, Zürich