SASL.CONF(5) InterNetNews Documentation SASL.CONF(5)NAMEsasl.conf - SASL Configuration file for nnrpd.
DESCRIPTION
The file sasl.conf in pathetc specifies Simple Authentication and Secu‐
rity Layer (SASL), defined in RFC 2222, for nnrpd. Now nnrpd imple‐
ments only Security Layer support, which is an extension of RFC 2595.
This means you can get SSL or TLS encrypted NNRP between your server
and newsreaders. It requires OpenSSL 0.9.3 or newer from
http://www.openssl.org/; it has been tested with versions 0.9.4 and
0.9.5.
INSTALLATION
To use SSL, a certificate and private key are needed that you can cre‐
ate using the openssl binary. Make certain that each keys are owned by
your news user, news group, and are mode 0640 or 0660.
EXAMPLE
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out /usr/local/news/lib/cert.pem\
-days 366 -keyout /usr/local/news/lib/cert.pem
chown news:news /usr/local/news/lib/cert.pem
chmod 640 /usr/local/news/lib/cert.pem
You also can make the keys as the root user with "make cert".
CONFIGURATION
Comments begin with a number sign ("#") and continue through the
end of the line. Blank lines and comments are ignored. All other
lines specify parameters, and should be of the form
<option>: <value>
where <option> is the name of the configuration option being set and
<value> is the value that the configuration option is being set to.
Blank lines and lines beginning with ("#") are ignored. For boolean
options, the values "yes", "on", "t", and 1 turn the option on; the
values "no", "off", "f", and 0 turn the option off.
tls_cert_file
The path to a file containing the server's certificate.
tls_key_file
The path to a file containing the server's private key.
tls_ca_path
The path to a directory containing the CA's certificate.
tls_ca_file
The path to a file containing the CA's certificate.
TO DO
Implement methods of the authentication protocols of SASL.
HISTORY
Written by Kenichi OKADA <okada@opaopa.org> for InterNetNews.
SEE ALSOinn.conf(5), innd(8), nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)INN 2.4.0 2002-12-03 SASL.CONF(5)