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Re: username/password authentication
Ok, this is not, what I expected to happen ;-)

The pre-commands are stripped. See sourcecode of html page for the original diff file.

Re: username/password authentication
This should fix some problems:

--- nntp.sh.old 2003-05-02 21:31:21.000000000 +0200
+++ nntp.sh.new 2003-05-02 21:36:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@
}

-echo "200 Hi, you can post (sn simple auth script)"
+printf "200 Hi, you can post (sn simple auth script)\r\n"

@@ -59,11 +59,17 @@
#switchpart=`echo ${currentline:0:14} | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]`
case "$switchpart" in
- "LIST EXTENSION")
+ "LIST EXTENSIONS")

- echo "202-Extensions supported:"
- echo " AUTHINFO USER"
- echo "."
+ printf "202-Extensions supported:\r\n"
+ printf " AUTHINFO USER\r\n"
+ printf " MODE READER\r\n"
+ printf ".\r\n"
haveuser=""
;;
+ "MODE READER")
+ # some newsreaders (e.g. MacSoup ;-))
+ # send this command at the very beginning
+ printf "200 You are already in this mode. Ignored.\r\n"
+ ;;
"QUIT")

@@ -73,5 +79,5 @@
# extract username
haveuser=${currentline:14}
- echo "381 Continue with authorization sequence"
+ printf "381 Continue with authorization sequence\r\n"

# echo $haveuser
@@ -84,10 +90,10 @@

if checkuser $haveuser $havepass ; then
- echo "281 Authorization accepted"
+ printf "281 Authorization accepted\r\n"
export POSTING_OK=1 # is this necessary?

exec $SNNTPD -S logger -p news.info
else
- echo "482 Authorization rejected $msg"
+ printf "482 Authorization rejected $msg\r\n"
fi

@@ -95,5 +101,5 @@
;;
*)
- echo "450 Authorization required for this command"
+ printf "450 Authorization required for this command\r\n"
haveuser=""

username/password authentication

The sn documentation tells you to use another script for it. Since we found none, we wrote our own, which I'll put here for everyone's convenience.

#!/bin/bash

# simple script for doing authentication with sn, 

# the usernames and passwords are defined inline

# in this file

# settings

timeout=20  # seconds!

SNNTPD=/usr/sbin/snntpd 

#users (array)

users=(user1 user2 user3)

#corresponding passwords (must not be shorter than users array!)

passwords=(password1 password2 password3)

# end settings

checkuser () { 

  user_count=${#users[@]}

  index=0

  while [ "$index" -lt "$user_count" ] ; do

    if [ "${users[$index]}" = "$1" ] ; then

      if [ "${passwords[$index]}" = "$2" ] ; then

        return 0

      else

        return 1

      fi

    fi

    let "index = $index + 1"

  done

  return 1

}

echo "200 Hi, you can post (sn simple auth script)"

haveuser="" # no one yet

# simple loop as long as no timeout or other read error occurs

# loop also terminates when exec()'ing snntpd, for obvious reasons

while read -t $timeout currentline ; do

  lenm1=`expr ${#currentline} - 1`

  currentline=${currentline:0:$lenm1}

  switchpart=`echo ${currentline:0:14} | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`

  #switchpart=`echo ${currentline:0:14} | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]`

  case "$switchpart" in

    "LIST EXTENSION")

      echo "202-Extensions supported:"

      echo " AUTHINFO USER"

      echo "."

      haveuser=""

    ;;

    "QUIT")

      exit 0

    ;;

    "AUTHINFO USER")

      # extract username

      haveuser=${currentline:14}

      echo "381 Continue with authorization sequence"

      #      echo $haveuser

    ;;

    "AUTHINFO PASS")

      # check password

      havepass=${currentline:14} # extract password

      if checkuser $haveuser $havepass ; then

        echo "281 Authorization accepted"

        export POSTING_OK=1 # is this necessary?

        exec $SNNTPD -S logger -p news.info

      else

        echo "482 Authorization rejected $msg"

      fi

      haveuser=""

    ;;

    *)

      echo "450 Authorization required for this command"

      haveuser=""

    ;;

  esac

done

rpms
RPM link wrongly leads to binary rpms and the only srpm is a very old version.
I'll just keep looking or repackage it myself.