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[svn] * src/configfile.h,src/configfile.c,docs/noffle.conf.5: Add noffle-user and noffle-group configs. * src/configfile.c,src/fetch.c,src/fetchlist.c,src/protocol.c, src/server.c: Replace strcpy() with Utl_cpyStr() where appropriate. See Debian bug 168128. * src/control.c,src/configfile.c,src/noffle.c: Replace [s]scanf("%s") with [s]scanf(MAXCHAR_FMT). * src/noffle.c: Log warning if noffle.conf is world readable. * src/noffle.c: Restrict most options to news admins; i.e. those who are root or news on running Noffle. * Makefile.in,acconfig.h,aclocal.m4,config.h.in,configure,configure.in, docs/Makefile.in,docs/noffle.conf.5,packages/Makefile.in, packages/redhat/Makefile.in,src/Makefile.am,src/Makefile.in, src/authenticate.c,src/authenticate.h,src/noffle.c,src/server.c: Add basic authentication using either Noffle-specific user file or authenticating via PAM (service 'noffle'). PAM authentication needs to run as root, so a Noffle server that needs PAM must be started by root. Helpful (?) error messages will be logged if not. Noffle will switch ruid and euid to 'news' (or whatever is configured) ASAP. * src/noffle.c: Add uid checking.
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2 The Noffle News Server
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5 Features
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8 Noffle is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up
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9 connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on
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10 the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote
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11 server. Noffle is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely
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12 available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details.
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14 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
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15 support offline reading by themselves.
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17 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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18 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
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19 downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo
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21 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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22 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole
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23 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
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26 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle
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29 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or
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30 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
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33 * Noffle also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
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34 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
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35 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
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37 Compatibility with News Clients
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40 See docs/NOTES for information about news client software.
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48 The current development release is: 1.1.2
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50 The Noffle homepage is at:
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67 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing Noffle.
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74 noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle.
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76 There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge:
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88 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed
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89 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.