Many thanks (was Re: setting up authentification for reading news)

1997-01-20 Thread Joseph Skinner
many thanks to all the suggestions that I got for setting up authentification for news. I solvered the problem in the short term by writing a quick and nasty version of suck in python that would handle authentificaton and this seems to work well for the moment. Amny thanks Joe -- ===

Re: setting up authentification for reading news

1997-01-18 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Joseph Skinner wrote: > my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself. > > I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this. > > Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux. Your system should already be running identd; usuall

Re: setting up authentification for reading news

1997-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
> my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself. > > I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this. > > Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux. This would depend upon which news reader you are using. In Tin, you create a .newsauth file; i

Re: setting up authentification for reading news

1997-01-17 Thread Steve
> my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself. > I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this. > Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux. Here's a crude hack you might try. It's a simple server run out of inetd. It receives incoming connect