Re: INN2 set up user authentication via ckpasswd

Hi,

I added this to readers.conf:
 auth: "/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/ckpasswd -f /etc/news/userdb"

What is the whole contents of your readers.conf file?
It needs at least something like:
auth "users" {
     auth: "ckpasswd -f /etc/news/userdb"
     default: "<unauthenticated>"
}
access "authenticatedpeople" {
     users: "*"
     newsgroups: "*"
}
access "restrictive" {
     users: "<unauthenticated>"
     newsgroups: "!*"
}
See https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/readers.conf.html
The rights for authenticated people (and for unauthenticated people) have to be explained.

I created a test user and got auth failure.

Here, if you successfully authenticate with the "test" user, his assigned identity is "test" in the "users" keyword of access blocks. When authentication fails, the identity is "<unauthenticated>" (the default value of the auth block).

~ htpasswd -nbd test test > /etc/news/userdb

More secure hashes are recommended, like ones obtained with:
     openssl passwd -5 test
   https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/ckpasswd.html
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