Hi,
I remember reading your previous post about authenticating users in the
up/down groups. I assume the access.conf and users.dat below are backups of
the working configuration?
If so, in order to use dnewsweb with these groups, it would have been
necessary to use tellnews_pass both now and in the past. This allows
dnewsweb to authenticate against dnews, and permit access to protected
groups.
Simply open tellnews.pass, and add the contents as a setting in dnewsweb.ini
tellnews_pass contentsoftellnews.pass
That should be sufficient to permit Web-based access to these groups
assuming the server is otherwise correctly configured.
If you are still having problems, please let us know. As you aren't using
external databases for authentication, I wouldn't expect further problems.
Please include dnews.conf, and any additional errors/problems, and we'll
advise you from there.
Thanks,
- Roydon L.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<3e177071$1@netwin1>...
>
> I am re-setting up dnews after a HDD crash, and having to relearn dnews
once more after having it run trouble free for so long, has been a humbling
experience. At the end, I've included an OLD post giving an example of the
type of configuration i am seeking. Additionally the issue is still on the
web at:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/il2/rjfrisby/dnews.html
>
> QUESTION:
> Beginning with a successful set up of dnewsweb being accessed on my
windows pc running apache server, the main page reached via
http://localhost/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe
>
> Trying to read a group called alt.down, I enter the term "down" in the
field prompting "List News Groups Containing" and then clicked the search
button and immediately received the following error.
>
> An error occured
> News host not responding: 480 User and password still required, authinfo
command
>
> I then login as userb/userb and then try to read a specific group named
alt.down I then receive the following error:
>
> Login to use your personal subscriptions
> To read protected news groups, define tellnews_pass in dnewsweb.ini to
match (work)/tellnews.pass on dnews
>
> I don't recall ever having this error before, and was unable to locate
anything called tellnews_pass in the dnewsweb.ini.
>
> USERS.DAT
> usera:$115399.767996:None:*::up
> userb:$132714.611081:None:*::down
> userc:$132162.474814:None:*::deltacomp
>
> ACCESS.CONF
> *:logoff:::*
> *:read,post:$lookup$:$lookup$:!*:users=50,con=10
> *:read,post:,groups=down::*down*:
> *:read,post:,groups=deltacomp::delta.*,comp.*:
> *:read,post:,groups=up::*up*:
>
> #################
> OLD POST
> #################
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: netwin.dnews
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:29 PM
> Subject: Access.conf NOT producing desired result! (long post)
>
>
>
> (IMPORTANT!! EXPLANATION BELOW RELIES ON VIEWING
> WITH MONO-SPACED FONT SUCH AS COURIER)
>
> HOST INFORMATION:
> Windows 2000 Pro Service Pack 2
> DNews 5.5h2
> >
> CLIENT INFORMATION:
> Windows NT 4.00.1381
> OE 6.00.2600.0000
>
> This is a long post so please bare with me. I decided on the long route
> so that I could be thorough and provide readers with enough information to
> see what I had done. A resulting matrix can be found at the end of the
post
> and below this paragraph. (Verified in Internet Explorer, not sure if
> Netscape will render tabular matrix properly) I encluded a link to an
EXCEL
> spreadsheet for those whom the html doesn't show up correctly.
>
> MATRIX: http://www.angelfire.com/il2/rjfrisby/
>
>
> PLEASE VIEW IN MONO-SPACED FONT
> ================================================================
> SCENARIO:
> ================================================================
> [ A.1 ]--I have 16 groups composed of four prefix and four
> suffix combinations:
> PREFIXES: alt, bin, comp, delta
> SUFFIXES: up, down, left, right
>
>
> [ A.2 ]--I desire 3 different USER GROUPS with different
> access privileges.
> (Desired Group access in PARENTHESIS)
> <As appears in access.conf>
>
> Group #1: "up" (alt.up, bin.up, comp.up, delta.up)
> Group #2: "down" (alt.down, bin.down, comp.down, delta.down)
> Group #3: "deltacomp" (delta.[up, down, left, right], comp.[up, down,left,
right])
>
> Group #1: "up" *:read,post:,groups=up::*up*:add
> Group #2: "down" *:read,post:,groups=down::*down*:add
> Group #3: "deltacomp" *:read,post:,groups=deltacomp::delta.*,comp.*:add
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> [ A.3 ]--With 3 different PROTECTED GROUPS, there are a total
> of six different order combinations they can appear
> within the access.conf file:
>
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #1 up, down, deltacomp
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #2 up, deltacomp, down
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #3 down, deltacomp, up
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #4 down, up, deltacomp
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #5 deltacomp, up, down
> PROTECTED GROUP ORDER #6 deltacomp, down, up
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> [ A.4 ]--I created three users each belonging to one of the
> groups (From USERS.DAT)
>
> usera:$14615.462138:None:*::up
> userb:$11470.281348:None:*::down
> userc:$18925.170324:None:*::deltacomp
>
> ================================================================
> PROCEDURE:
> ================================================================
> [ B.1 ]--I created 6 text files which were copies of the
> ACCESS.CONF file. Each file's contents were identical
> except for the three lines below [## PROTECTED GROUPS]
> (SEE: Section A.3)
>
>
> ACCESS.CONF #3 of 6 PER A.3 (down, deltacomp, up)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ## DO NOT EDIT BY HAND except between the manual parts
> ## User/passwords should be in users.dat rather than this file
> ## UserGroups can be defined in groups.dat
>
> ## DEFAULT RULE
> *:logoff:::*
>
> ## BEGIN MANUAL PART1 - Anything here will be preserved
> ## END MANUAL PART1
>
>
> ## DOMAINS
> *:read,post:$lookup$:$lookup$:!*:users=50,con=10
>
> ## PROTECTED GROUPS
> *:read,post:,groups=down::*down*:add
> *:read,post:,groups=deltacomp::delta.*,comp.*:add
> *:read,post:,groups=up::*up*:add
>
> ## IHAVE FEEDS
>
> ## BEGIN MANUAL PART2 - Anything here will be preserved
> ## END MANUAL PART2
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> [ B.2 ]--I changed access.conf to match combination #1
> [ B.2 ]--RELOADED tellnews
> [ B.3 ]--Logged in as usera in Outlook Express
> [ B.4 ]--Reset Groups and recorded which groups appeared
> [ B.5 ]--I then did this for userb, and user c and then
> changed the access.conf to match combination #2
> RELOADED tellnews, and logged in as all three users
> until I completed a matrix of resulting groups which
> appeared for each user under each of the six different
> configurations.
>
> ================================================================
> RESULTING MATRIX:
> ================================================================
> SEE: http://www.angelfire.com/il2/rjfrisby/dnews.html
> OR
> SEE: http://www.angelfire.com/il2/rjfrisby/dnmatrix.xls
>
>
> Out of 6 different access.conf files, NOT ONE of them yielded the desired
> result. I am at a complete loss here. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thank you for reviewing this long post, I apologize for it's length, but I
> wanted to be thorough.
>
> -R.Frisby
>
>
>
