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From: "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:28:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802202128.QAA21169@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3en0z6m7i.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on 20 Feb 1998 03:31:45 +0100)

Excerpts from mail: (20-Feb-98) Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

"Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
Ed> It sounds more complicated than it really is. Basically, if there's an entry
Ed> for the server in ~/.authinforc, then send authinfo for that server whether
Ed>> challenged or not.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Lars> Hm.  Some servers only challenge when entering certain groups.  The
Lars> user may wish to stick the machine name and the user name into the
Lars> file, but not the password, and it would be annoying if that would
Lars> lead Gnus to send the authinfo (and promt the user for that
Lars> unnecessary password) even if the user doesn't want to read the
Lars> password-protected groups.

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
Steinar> Does it matter if Gnus sends authinfo before it is challenged?

Lars> It is annoying to have to type a password unless it is really
Lars> required. 

Hmmmmm. Good point. I haven't had a chance to upgrade to the latest Quassia
yet, so forgive the question, but does the netrc parsing code you snarfed
from ange-ftp parse the macdefs (marco definitions)? If not, maybe it could
be modified to do so. So instead of semantically overloading the username as
you suggested, we could define a macro which could be used as a flag to
determine whether to force authinfo or not. For example,

machine news.foobar.com login baz password xyzzy
macdef nntp_init
force authinfo

Later,
Ed


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-02-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-13 18:51 AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14  6:55 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 16:01   ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 17:03     ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 19:23       ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 19:31         ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-14 19:42           ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 20:38             ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 23:30               ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-15  5:28                 ` AUTHINFO Felix Lee
1998-02-15 13:32                 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:48                   ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 14:49                     ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 18:15                       ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 22:05                         ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 10:36                           ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 10:46                             ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 11:25                               ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 18:53                                 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19  2:21                                   ` AUTHINFO Joev Dubach
1998-02-19  4:55                                     ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-19 14:16                                       ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 15:26                                   ` AUTHINFO Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-15 14:32                   ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 17:19                     ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-15 17:29                       ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 19:58                         ` AUTHINFO Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-15 22:04                       ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 19:34                     ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16  8:13                     ` AUTHINFO Steinar Bang
1998-02-15 19:23                   ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 17:16                   ` AUTHINFO Justin Sheehy
1998-02-14 19:22     ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 16:27     ` feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Steinar Bang
1998-02-16 18:58       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17  7:48         ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17  9:03           ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:15           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17  8:41         ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17  8:49           ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:19             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-18 16:44               ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-19 15:55             ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20  2:31               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20  8:16                 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 10:36                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 14:27                     ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 21:39                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 22:34                       ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-02-20 21:28                 ` Edward J. Sabol [this message]
1998-02-20 23:10                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 23:26                     ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-21  0:14                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-23 18:06                         ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-27 11:56                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-27 15:58                             ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-28  5:45                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-04 19:38                               ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-02-28  4:27                             ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-28  5:48                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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