Authentication?

[Kevin Cheek <kcheek@umich.edu>]

Is authentication working for anyone? Whenever I try to access an nntp
server that requires authentication, gnus hangs immediately after I
enter the password. I searched the mailing list archives and foudn
that other people have reported the same problem, but it didn't look
like anyone had found a solution yet. Some people said that hitting
C-g would let them read news, but when I try that, gnus just quits.

I have (setq nntp-authinfo-function (function
nntp-send-nosy-authinfo)) in my .gnus since the user names required by
the nntp servers are not my local user name. I access two other nntp
servers that do not require authentication without any problems. One
of the two servers that require authentication allows me to
temporarily allow unauthenticated nntp access from a specific IP
address by accessing a web page first. When I do that, gnus can access
that server without any problems. Therefore, the problem seems to be
only with the authentication code in gnus.

I have tried 5.4.64 and 5.4.65 with XEmacs 19.15. I also tried
clearing out my .gnus and temporarily removing my .newsrc.eld. Then, I
tried using GNU Emacs 19.34. Nothing seemed to make any difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

-- 
 Kevin Cheek <kcheek@umich.edu>
 University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine
 Divisions of Rheumatology and Molecular Medicine & Genetics
 "Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." -- Friedrich Nietzsche