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by jondubois 3849 days ago
The "client-less" approach would be particularly nice for use with IoT devices which don't have enough CPU/memory to run a beefy pub/sub client (which is typical of other solutions). So that's nice.

Is there a way to perform access control on the backend? E.g. Is there a way to prevent a specific user from subscribing to a specific channel (if they are not allowed)? Or is this specifically designed to deal only with public channels (that anyone can publish/subscribe to)?

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Yes, backend-authenticated access control is possible. See https://nchan.slact.net/details#authenticate-with-nchan_auth...