[5952] in Kerberos
innd/nnrpd w/kerberos?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Cantin)
Tue Oct 3 16:52:50 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 3 Oct 1995 20:23:46 GMT
From: tcantin@wellesley.edu (Tim Cantin)
Reply-To: tcantin@wellesley.edu
We have BULLETIN on VMS for local groups (aka folders), which allows you to
create groups which are only read/write-able by certain groups. This makes
it easy to create Faculty/Staff discussion groups and know the students
aren't reading them (reasons are obvious). We also have innd on Digital Unix
to provide Usenet News (in case you don't know, BULLETIN allows you to add
folders which point to Usenet News groups). A major downfall of this scenario
is the users are required to use BULLETIN on VMS to read the local groups,
and many of them have networked pc's (or access to one) which have newsreaders
on them. As we all know, graphical newsreaders are much better than
command-line, text interfaces (ok, that's argue-able, but you get my point).
** Bottom line: We want to get rid of BULLETIN. I'd like to see a replacement
which has a Unix-based server (preferrably an extension of innd), and clients
which are platform-independent, networked devices (i.e. pc, mac, unix...
shouldn't matter where they come from).
Is this possible? Can innd/nnrpd be made aware of a kerberos server for user
authentication, so we can control who can read which local groups? Is there
another easy way to do this?
Any and all suggestions are welcome; please e-mail them to me, and I will
post a summary. Thank you very much for your input.
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Tim Cantin, System and Network Manager, <tcantin@wellesley.edu>
203 Simpson East/IST, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181-8201
http://www.wellesley.edu/~tim/
