ietf-nntp Re: MODE READER (revisited)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Mar 14 10:27:04 PST 2003


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> and then just either accept or not accept the peer and the reader
>> commands based on whatever authentication mechanism that you're using.

> Hence the question :)   Thanks for the input.

Well, one thing that you could do is for connections from peers, just
grant them the transit commands and also the same privileges as any
anonymous reader.  Then, if they actually want to read more, they can
authenticate, and no MODE READER command is ever needed.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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