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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:09:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Daniel Crichton writes:
> What percentage of the news readers allow the use of authenticated NNTP?
As far as I'm aware, zero. NNTP doesn't do authentication -- it does
authorization. That is, if you're authorized to post to the server
(after giving your username/password), you can still forge messages in
anyone's name. Some server hacks might be possible that would match up
the authorization entry with an authentication entry, but the server would
still be requiring a username/password just to let people read, unless there
was a read-only server and a read-write server.
--
Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com>
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| (...) A public news server that I use allows people to connect and read messages freely, but requires a username/password to post, so it shouldn't be unfeasible to do that here. You'd still need to do some additional checking to ensure the username (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| "LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GF40AG.31A@lugnet.com... (...) send (...) This (...) message (...) and (...) What percentage of the news readers allow the use of authenticated NNTP? I know OE does, you simply supply a login (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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