On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If required, authentication is done via NNTP. The nntp servers can be > set up to require authentication for some or more groups, for instance > for closed user communities. > If you check your newsreader, you'll no doubt find a place to > tick "authentication required" and to enter userid and password. Correct, but to my understanding, NNTP only matches the data for authentication (using PAM, LDAP, etc.), just like SSH, most FTP, and other services. What I sent didn't mean that NNTP can't use authentication, but rather that Crayon was right in stating that NNTP doesn't track the users itself. I'll admit, though, that I could be wrong on this. Every once in a very great while, it's been known to happen. :-\ -- </Daniel P. Brown> Ask me about: Dedicated servers starting @ $59.99/mo., VPS starting @ $19.99/mo., and shared hosting starting @ $2.50/mo. Unmanaged, managed, and fully-managed! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php