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Re: Forum shift
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:48:40 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> > However, once that connection has been established, it ought to be possible
> > to use your member ID/password to log in, so long as the email address
> > provided in the NNTP posting matches the one on file that's attached to
> > your member ID.
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> Why should that be necessary? Shouldn't it be enough to hook the password
> checker of the NNTP server up to the database containing IDs and passwords
> (if necessary both the posting and the member database).
Apologies, I wasn't talking about totally overhauling the NNTP system, I was
talking about using what's available-- IE, the member passwords, which are the
only passwords currently on the LUGNET interface to my knowledge.
If you're talking about creating a new set of passwords associated with the NNTP
setups, that's a different story. The NNTP setups are how the SMTP and web
interfaces do their authentication currently. The web interface just has an
extra caveat-- it ties the Member ID to the posting ID. So if you validate your
member ID, it can automatically validate your posting ID. However, the posting
ID is still what's used on all 3 interfaces, and that may need to be totally
rewritten if you're talking about a more dynamic system for accepting posting
setups and associating them with passwords.
I'd be willing to take a look and see if there's a quasi-quick fix solution that
we can come up with, but my enthusiasm quickly wanes if we're talking about
replacing the entire setup system.
DaveE
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| (...) I would expect that any old NNTP server can be plugged in instead, if the one Todd originally selected doesn't support access by username and password. (...) Why should that be necessary? Shouldn't it be enough to hook the password checker of (...) (14 years ago, 3-Nov-10, to lugnet.admin.general)
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