[leafnode-list] Question regarding authentification

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

While dealing with Mark Brown's authinfo patch, I wrote an extension for
the nntpd which allows authinfo based on the contents of /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow -- or so I thought. Obviously, the nntpd cannot access the
shadowed password file since it does not run as the superuser but as
user "news" instead. Therefore, I am curious as to what your opinion is.
I see at least the following possibilities:

1) Ignoring authentification based on /etc/shadow

2) Let the nntpd run on UID (or GID) 0

3) Have an own user/password file which is readable by news:news

What do you think?

--Cornelius.

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