itamarjp / WendzelNNTPd

The WendzelNNTPd is an IPv6-ready Usenet-server (NNTP daemon) with the main goal of a high usability. It is portable (Linux/*BSD/*nix), supports AUTHINFO authentication, contains ACL as well as role based ACL and supports invisible newsgroups. It currently supports MySQL and SQLite backends.

WendzelNNTPd

The WendzelNNTPd is an IPv6-ready Usenet server (NNTP daemon) with the main goal to maximize usability on the console level. WendzelNNTPd achieves that by breaking down complicated things to an easy-to-use configuration file + tool. The server is portable (Linux/*BSD/*nix), supports AUTHINFO authentication, contains support for Access Control Lists (ACL), role based access control (RBAC) and supports `invisible newsgroups'. It currently allows MySQL and SQLite backends.

Features

• Runs on Linux, OpenSolaris, *BSD
• Supports IPv6
• Database abstraction layer (supports SQLite3 and MySQL)
• Tiny (only about 7,500 Lines of Code)
• Written in C
• Supports NNTP authentication (AUTHINFO USER/PASS)
• Supports advanced ACL and role based access control (RBAC)
• Automatically prevents double-postings
• Supports "invisible newsgroups"
• It is open source ;-)

Website

http://steffen-wendzel.blogspot.de/p/wendzelnntpd.html

Documentation

https://github.com/cdpxe/WendzelNNTPd/blob/master/WendzelNNTPd-OSE/docs/docs.pdf