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Standard Roles

CoffeeLink News Server uses a sophisticated, role based security system to control user's access to news groups. A role defines a set of actions that a user is allowed to perform. Controlled actions include:

  • Post a message to one or more news groups.

  • Read a message in one or more news groups.

  • Create and modify news groups.

  • Create and modify users.
CLNews ships with a standard set of roles. Every user must be assigned one or more of these roles. You may also create new roles to restrict access to newsgroups in more elaborate ways.


Table 2: Standard Roles
Role Name Authorized Actions
None Cannot read or post to any news groups. Used to disable an account.
PostAll Post, read, and cancel messages in all news groups.
PostNonPrivate Post, read, and cancel messages in news groups not named ``private.*''.
PostPrivate Post, read, and cancel messages in news groups named ``private.*''.
PostPublic Post, read, and cancel messages in news groups named ``public.*''.
ReadAll Read messages in all news groups.
ReadNonPrivate Read messages in news groups not named ``private.*''.
ReadPrivate Read messages in news groups named ``private.*''.
ReadPublic Read messages in news groups named ``public.*''.
admin Create, delete, and modify all news groups, roles, and users.
default Same as PostPublic.

The table above lists the standard roles provided by CLNews. Obviously the admin role is extremely powerful. As such, users assigned to the admin role must have secret passwords to prevent unauthorized users from modifying (and probably breaking) your CLNews configuration. See Security Considerations for more information.


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