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Hello all,

After over than 10 years away from Usenet, I have set up an INN server
again by following/adapting the documentation found in particular here: https://git.mcos.nc/INN/inn_install (french)

The goal of this server is to distribute a private text-only hierarchy
among several private servers.

The server:
- INN 2.7.3 on Debian 13 (in a container, because I like challenges,
but that is just an implementation detail)

What I want to do:
- Create a private text-only hierarchy (letrCOs say plop.*)
- Be able to manage this hierarchy with signed control articles

I successfuly set up the server, created the hierarchy, created a gpg
key and imported it and set control.ctl up to allow INN to verify
incoming CMSG. INN is up and running on my local network :)

I still have some questions:
- Is it possible to have multiple keys capable of signing CMSG so that
multiple users can manage the hierarchy (maybe using GPG subkeys)?
- How can one write and sign CMSGs such as newgroup and rmgroup using
slrn (or any other mean if slrn is not the right tool for this) ?

It has been difficult to find documentation about these subjects nowdays.
I have done this in the past but my memory is failing me :-/

Thank you in advance for your answers.
--
Doug
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Il 20/12/2025 23:28, Doug713705 ha scritto:
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I successfuly set up the server, created the hierarchy, created a gpg
key and imported it and set control.ctl up to allow INN to verify
incoming CMSG. INN is up and running on my local network :)

Good.

I still have some questions:
- Is it possible to have multiple keys capable of signing CMSG so that
multiple users can manage the hierarchy (maybe using GPG subkeys)?

yes. See https://manpages.debian.org/testing/inn2/control.ctl.5.en.html
if you declare more line with verify-* you can add more key's to manage
your thing's.

- How can one write and sign CMSGs such as newgroup and rmgroup using
slrn (or any other mean if slrn is not the right tool for this) ?

Julien have write a python script to manage everything. See https://github.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-signcontrol

At this moment it's the best for managing.

It has been difficult to find documentation about these subjects nowdays.
I have done this in the past but my memory is failing me :-/

Just google it with good question :)

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Np.


Sincerely
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Ivo Gandolfo


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Le 20-12-2025, Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> a |-crit-a:

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I still have some questions:
- Is it possible to have multiple keys capable of signing CMSG so that
multiple users can manage the hierarchy (maybe using GPG subkeys)?

yes. See https://manpages.debian.org/testing/inn2/control.ctl.5.en.html
if you declare more line with verify-* you can add more key's to manage
your thing's.

Oh nice ! By reading the man page I was not sure it was possible.

The man page says "Lines are matched in order and the last matching
line in the file will be used" so as I understand it now, a match is
based on the 3 first fields (<type>:<from>:<newsgroups>) so I can set
something like:

newgroup:control-1@example.com:example.*:verify-control-1@example.com newgroup:control-2@example.com:example.*:verify-control-2@example.com newgroup:control-3@example.com:example.*:verify-control-3@example.com

- How can one write and sign CMSGs such as newgroup and rmgroup using
slrn (or any other mean if slrn is not the right tool for this) ?

Julien have write a python script to manage everything. See https://github.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-signcontrol

At this moment it's the best for managing.

I found this Github repo after posting here and, yes, it does exactly
what I was looking for :)

It has been difficult to find documentation about these subjects nowdays.
I have done this in the past but my memory is failing me :-/

Just google it with good question :)

I'm under the impression that that trick is not working anymore ;-)

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Np.

Sincerely

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Doug
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