> richardb@drives.rta.nsw.gov.au (Richard Begg) writes: > > > Julian, > > > > We are interested in whether nntpcache will support user authentication > > (username/password) for client access. There seems to be some support for > > this in the access file, but nothing in the code. Is this planned in the > > near future? > > I'm re-implementing this feature for the next minor release. I removed > it from 2.3.*, because the code was not well tested and there was very > little call for it and a mountain of conceptual issues to deal with. A > few people have now petitioned (;) to have user authentication back > in, Please reinstall the User-authent., it may be very difficult but can be also extremely usefull. I'm the firewall admin. of a certain Bank and we use DHCP. This means normally all users get a different Ip address everytime they switch on the machine. So far so good, but we are using Firewall-1 which has no nntp-proxy built into it. Hence the only way to allow/block people for news is based upon a Ip-address. This means I've to reintroduce permanent IP-addresses, major drag... In my case, the most usefull function missing from nntp-cache is user-auhtentication. Does anyone know of a NNTP-proxy for nntp apart from news-cache, nntpcache and newscache from evil purple. I don't need caching badly but I need user-authentication. Cheers, Jan Bessels ========
