> "NetWin Support Auckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just installed dnews for evaluation, and am trying to setup so > >> users can access news via web. I want each user to be authenticated and > >see his/her own list of newsgroups. > >> > >> MY question is how do I authenticate users for DNEWSWEB and limit the > >newsgroups they can subscribe to. > > > >Hi, > > > >You can authenticate users in dnewsweb by adding the following setting - > > > > tellnews_pass pass > > > >Where 'pass' is the contents of your tellnews.pass file in your dnews work > >area. > > > >This will cause dnewsweb to use the same authentication rules that dnews > >uses. > > > >There is no in-built mechanism in dnewsweb to limit the number of groups a > >user can subscribe to. > > > >You can set dnews to limit the number of groups that are cached > >(max_maxgroups) or reduce the 'life' setting if you are concerned with users > >accessing to too many groups wasting bandwidth when updating. > > > >- Roydon L. > > > > > > I added "tellnews_pass password" to dnewsweb.ini and created a file in d:\dnews\tellnews.pass containing the string "password" > when i login using dnewsweb i get the following error: > > News host authentication failed: 502 Authentication error, tellnews_pass set incorrectly in dnewsweb.ini get it from tellnews.pass file
The tellnews.pass file is located in your dnews workarea as specified in dnews.conf. In your case this will be d:\dnews\work\tellnews.pass. Copy the contents of that file to the tellnews_pass setting in dnewsweb.ini and you won't get this error. Also, delete the file you created to prevent future confusion. - Roydon L.
