[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 11:19 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Hmm, there *may* be a more elegant way of doing this (I'd have to 
> ponder it some more to see if we could transfer the current security 
> layer state between processes), but OTH if nntpd negotiated a TLS 
> layer and/or SASL security layer before MODE READER, nntpd could stick 
> around and proxy the traffic from the client to nnrpd via stdio or a 
> UNIX socket. Its brute force, but it should work.

Unfortunately, innd cannot be capable of those negotiations without 
being able to parse readers.conf (in order to find out what 
authentication methods are permitted for a given connection, and what 
user databases should be consulted to determine success/failure).  I 
can't even imagine trying to fold all of that code into innd -- a rough 
estimate is that about a third to half of all of nnrpd would be 
involved.  At that point, we may as well ditch MODE READER entirely, I 
think.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org