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Bug 272497

Summary:	NNTP server should authenticate against Bugzilla
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Denis Roy

2009-04-16 09:56:25 EDT

We need to make the newsgroups authenticate against Bugzilla.  Currently, NNTP access and Web access use two different auth mechanisms, which is lame and causes confusion.

I have some ideas. Let's try to make the world a better place.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2009-04-16 15:28:33 EDT

I managed to put something together which works in realtime (it's very simple, really) but by then I remembered that implementing this would result in bugzilla credentials being used without encryption.  For 'normal' users this isn't critical, but if someone gets a committer credential, it can do a bit of damage.  Switching to nntps would cause too much disruption.

After a bit of discussion, we realized that this essentially only benefits the newcomer, who is facing two choices for accessing the groups: web interface and nntp.  We decided that we'll simply 'hide' the nntp links and focus more on the web interface, which is likely what most newcomers / occasional news posters want.  NNTP access will still be possible, but we'll only mention it on a footnote on the pages.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2009-04-16 16:27:18 EDT

I've removed most of the NNTP 'clutter' to make it more obvious that Newsgroups == web interface.