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@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ to the news system key ring.
<B>=<I>logfile</I></B>) in <I>control.ctl</I>.
<DT>C News:
<DD>Use the action <B>p</B> in the fourth field of <I>controlperm</I>.
<DT>ANU News:
<DD>Use the <B>HELP ADD FILE PGP_verification<B> ANU command.
<DT>Other systems:
<DD>Sorry, not implemented yet.
</DL>
@ -110,6 +112,14 @@ C News version CR.G</A>
Charles Lindsey &lt;chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk&gt;)
</UL>
<P>Newer versions of INN (since 1.5) and ANU News (since 6.2.0) do not
need to be patched, as they ship with built-in handling for pgp
verification. You can therefore skip past the "Install it on your
news system" section to "Enable verification for the hierarchies that
interest you". I recommend that you upgrade to INN 1.5.1sec if you
are running any prior INN version, because it has a few important
security problems fixed.</P>
<P>I regret that I do not have the time to develop more patches, but I
will gladly add patches for other systems to this page as they are
made available to me. The INN version 1.4sec patch will apply to
@ -263,7 +273,11 @@ it has a valid signature. This is probably adequate security as long
as you keep the news user's PGP key ring limited only to people you
trust to maintain newsgroup hierarchies.</P>
<LI> If you are running some other system:
<LI>If you are running ANU News (V6.2.0 or later):
<P>Instructions will (hopefully) soon appear here.
<LI>If you are running some other system:
<P>You're out of luck until someone writes a patch and instructions for
your system and makes it available to me for redistribution.</P>
@ -371,6 +385,10 @@ message saying, "authentication failed".</P>
<P>When you are all done, make sure news.announce.newusers is really
marked moderated in your <I>active</I> file.</P>
<LI>If you are running ANU News (V6.2.0 or later):
<P>Instructions will (hopefully) soon appear here.
<LI>If you are running some other system:
<P>You're out of luck until someone writes a patch and instructions for
@ -1371,7 +1389,7 @@ article, posted regularly in the
newsgroup.</P>
<HR>
Last modified: 30 October 1996
Last modified: 8 August 1997
<ADDRESS>
David C Lawrence<BR>
<A HREF="mailto:tale@isc.org (David C Lawrence)">tale@isc.org</A>