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From: gorski@poboxes.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Password Protection for Newsgroups
Date: 08 Jul 1997 14:50:23 +0200
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"Philip Rowley" <philip.rowley@astrac.com> writes:

> My question is about FreeBSD version 2.1.0
> 
> Is it possible to password protect our news groups (INN), we want to
> provide a service to members only.

With INN: YES!

look at 'man passwd.nntp' 
'passwd.nntp' is normally located in /usr/local/news/lib

- Achim