[Noffle-users] on noffle's authentication capabilities

[Hipólita Y. <hip...@gm...>]

Hi there.  I've been searching the web to know whether noffle is able to
ask for passwords from the clients that connect to it directly --- its
users.  I actually use noffle as a private NNTP server and I'm interested
in closing it up with passwords and TLS.

It looks as though it cannot.  It seems designed to be run by a TCP server
and so it's the TCP server that must handle the authentication.  That's an
area I understand little as well.  So my question is alternatively --- how
can I provide authentication to my ``noffle --server'' with a TCP server?
Perhaps I can make a server that handles the authentication and then
invokes ``noffle --server'' when the user provides the correct
information.  This sounds easy enough I can try it myself.  In any case, I
kindly ask anyone to share any thoughts.  Thank you!