At 07:11 AM 6/21/02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I think you were right about that, Chris. I cleared any trace of the
>group name out of Netscape's data files and the permissions now seem to be
>behaving properly. However, the group no longer appears in the list of
>groups that can be subscribed to in my newsreader. Which means that for
>someone to subscribe to it, they would have explicity enter the URL for
>the group.
>
>This is an acceptable workaround, I guess, but ideally, I would like the
>protected group names to appear on the list with all of the others, and
>only prompt for username/password if the user clicks "Subscribe." Is this
>something I can fix in the access.conf? Or is this just a function of my
>browser?
>
>Thanks for all of your help thus far...
Yes, add to dnews.conf
auth_showprot true
Basically this is a security choice, some people want secret groups invisible
and others want them visible for exactly the reasons you just outlined.
ChrisP.
>Support AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I don't think your problem is with the dnews access rules. (But I could be
> >
> >wrong)
> >I think you actually have it correct already, the user dialogue appears
> because
> >you previously had temp.private listed as a group in your client, try
> >another client
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