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1. Re: INN2 user authentication against system users (Julien ?LIE)
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:50:47 +0100
From: Julien ?LIE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: INN2 user authentication against system users
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Hi Kevin,
>> Wouldn't "ckpasswd -s" be what you are looking for?
>>
> I have to change ckpasswd to setgid shadow,
> and i works on GNU/Linux, don't konow if it works for other OSes.
Did you try Russ' suggestion of '"ckpasswd" without the "-s" option?
It would permit to remove the setgid bit you set.
See the EXAMPLES section in
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/ckpasswd.html to see how
PAM can be configured.
>> Which part of the EXAMPLES section at the end of the man page would you like
>> to emphasize more?
>> https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/readers.conf.html
>
> I think just plain User/Password authentication over nntps should be easy. :-)
Oh, I also see that the readers.conf example file shipped with INN does
not contain any example of ckpasswd use...
So, I suggest to:
- improve the basic readers.conf example file to add an example of
"ckpasswd" (PAM) and "ckpasswd -f" (file) uses;
- change the examples in the readers.conf man page to use "ckpasswd"
instead of "ckpasswd -s" (and just say in a sentence the difference);
- change the examples in the readers.conf man page to use "ckpasswd -f"
instead of "ckpasswd -d" (using a plain file is far more easier);
- add a "QUICK START" section near the beginning of the readers.conf man
page to just document these two most frequent uses.
Do you see any other way to improve that documentation?
--
Julien ?LIE
??L'homme a imagin? le cercle avant de savoir que la terre ?tait ronde.
?a prouve quand m?me une certaine facult? d'invention.?? (Jacques
Sternberg)
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