Hi,
The tellnews_pass_mask setting goes in dnews.conf on the news server. This
tells DNews which IP addresses to accept tellnews commands from. E.g. to
allow from any system on the LAN (assuming a 10.0.0.0/8 address range).
tellnews_pass_mask 10.*
This is a comma-separated list of wildcards specifying where to permit
tellnews commands from. The idea is to prevent abuse should someone discover
your tellnews password.
- Roydon L.
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> On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 12:45:38 -0500, Vincent Fatica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >If so, how? Thanks.
>
> OK, got it (at least crudely) with some help from Google and an old
article
> by ChrisP. Here's what I did (with questions); comments welcome.
>
> I copied TELLNEWS.EXE and DNEWS.CONF to System32\ on the local machine and
> copied TELLNEWS.PASS to a location matching that specified by the local
> DNEWS.CONF's "workarea". In the local DNEWS.CONF, specified
> "myname=<remote_hostname>". That was enough. I don't understand the
> purpose of the recommended:
>
> tellnews_pass_mask 127.0.0.1,remote.ip.address
>
> Which DNEWS.CONF does it go in; what does it do? Is there a way to limit
> managerial connections by IP address?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> - Vince
>
