Re: nntp and authinfo working?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:50:10 +0100 Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> RR> Kind of strange thing and I dont know if its down to the connection but
> RR> Pan connects and downloads the groups fine with the same uid and pwd,
> RR> Gnus is connecting but not authenticating properly reaulting in me
> RR> only getting the basic eternal-september groups.
>
> RR> ,----
> RR> | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> RR> | 	     '(nntp "me"
> RR> | 		    (nntp-address "news.eternal-september.org")))
> RR> `----
>
> RR> with a corresponding line in .authinfo
>
> RR> ,----
> RR> | machine me login MYID force yes password MYPASSWORD
> RR> `----
>
> RR> Is there something silly or horrendously wrong here?
>
> RR> (It used to work but I've messed something up thats not obvious to me or
> RR> a recent pull from git has seen it broken)
>
> Set `auth-source-debug' to 'trivia and redo the connection attempt, then
> show the *Messages* content please.
>
> Ted
>

,----
| Reading active file from me via nntp...
| Opening nntp server on me...
| auth-source-search: found 1 backends matching (:max 1 :host "news.eternal-september.org" :port ("119" "nntp"))
| auth-source-netrc-parse: using CACHED file data for /home/shamrock/.emacs.d/.authinfo.gpg
| auth-source-search: found 0 results (max 1) matching (:max 1 :host "news.eternal-september.org" :port ("119" "nntp"))
| Opening nntp server on me...done
| Reading active file from me via nntp...done
`----

So its matching on the nntp-address and not on the "logical" "me"
name?

If I change "me" for news.eternal.. in the .authinfo it works. BUt then
I can only access ONE account at this address.

So it doesnt seem to work in the same way as it works for nnimap where I
change "me" for one or more other logical names and the correct secrets
are found for that respective machine entry.