Re: Controlling access to newsgroups

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From: Jason Molenda
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:50

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davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

>Any other ideas anybody?

hack the reader?  i.e. see if you can't rip the 'g' guts out of rn (so
they can only read one group at a time) and add code to do
authorization based on an access file (aka ACLs) at startup so they need
to type "rn <grpname>".

I have no idea how modular the goto-next-group code is in rn.  I'm just
throwing an idea out.  I think you're going to end up with a gross
hack no matter what you do.
-- 
Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
SGI Iris Admin        molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu       DoD #1867     '77 CB750F

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