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Article #82restricting new access? (was: Re: SERIOUS academic/political free speech supression at Deakin Uni)
From: matthew green
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 23:44
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 23:44
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just a nit-picking post (that got longer than i indended :-) ptcaffin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter T. Caffin) writes: The only problem with this approach is that it only guarantees the student's rights to _read_, rather than _contribute_ discussion to net news. All a sysadmin has to do with this in mind is to change the ~\.article (and whichever files control this function) ownership to root, so that the owner of the account cannot post. this does nothing. you have to restrict their access to the news server, either by refusing post's from their host, or using some authentication method to allow posts. if you don't do this, and they can connect to your nntp server, then it's very very likely they can post news. telnet(1) is your friend. or enemy. and don't think taking away telnet(1) would stop them either, i've written a very small program that would suffice for this, and i'm sure that a lot of other people could too. and then there is the fact that the user can remove the .article file seeing they own the directory anyway. or the news posters tht don't use this file. the access policy must be enforced from the news *server* side, not the client. .mrg. -- matthew green consultant /\ the fulcrum consulting group mrg@fulcrum.com.au 12/10-16 queen st voice: +61 3 621 2100 melbourne vic 3000 fax: +61 3 621 2724 australia /\
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