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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 13:06:02 GMT
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mattdm@NOSPAMmattdm.org
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Iain M Barker <imb@clara.net> wrote:
> 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 matched the sender's name, though.
It's that second part that's tricky. The first part doesn't help, because
once logged in as anybody, you can post as anybody else.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) Do we have to worry that much about that? I think the primary concern is to have a reasonable way to block posting by unauthorized folks. If you abuse your priviledges, your NNTP ID/password would be revoked. (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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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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