Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: nntpproxy-0.1.1  (for connecting to secure servers...)
Message-ID: <pgpmoose.199703252245.2937@liw.clinet.fi>
From: bcr@feynman.com (Dr Bill C Riemers)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:45:27 GMT
Reply-To: bcr@feynman.com
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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This is just a brief announcement of a new program I've uploaded to
sunsite.unc.edu called nntpproxy.  A few days ago, my news service
upgraded from NNTP to NNRP to help prevent spamming.  I was disappointed
to find my current news readers could not post or even receive the correct
active files with their new server.  Rather than hacking 'trn', and my
other favorite readers I wrote a short program to automatically login
and proxy to appear like a non-secure NNTP server.  This program can
either be used either stand alone, or if you prefer as part of inetd.conf.
So far, the only person who has used and tested this program is myself, so
be watchful of security holes.  The program is NOT designed to restrict
which users of your machine can access the server, but only to restrict
people on other machines from using your proxy (and hence your username
and password.)  The password security is no more, and no less secure than
pop-perl5.  CPU usage is very minimal.  I've yet to see a full enough CPU
usage to show up in 'ps' as anything other than 0:00.

Have fun.  The LSM follows.

                             Bill


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Title: NNTP Proxy         
Version: 0.1.1       
Entered-date: 24MAR97  
Description: This proxies NNTP connections with support for auto-login.   
	In other words, it converts type 201 (no posting) to 200 (ok posting)
	for servers that are username/password protected.  This is necessary
	to use tin, trn, gnus, etc unmodified.
Author: Dr Bill C Riemers <bcr@feynman.com>    
Maintained-by: Dr Bill C Riemers <bcr@feynman.com>
Primary-site:  http://www.feynman.com/software/nntpproxy-0.1.1.tar.gz 
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu
Original-site: http://www.feynman.com/software/nntpproxy-0.1.1.tar.gz 
Platforms: Linux, easily portable...     
Copying-policy: Less restrictive than GPL.
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