From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66780 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnrss and password handling Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:15:15 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86hce9wmgs.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207855166 28894 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2008 19:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Lynbech Christian Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15263@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 10 21:19:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jk2DR-0006Jq-Vp for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:13:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk2Cn-0000UO-Hf; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk2Cm-0000U1-7m for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk2Cg-0008UM-D6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jk2Cq-0007JN-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com (unknown [38.98.147.130]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 335183E8032; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:20:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" X-Hashcash: 1:20:080410:ding@gnus.org::bP04no2R8QOloEvo:00000L4n X-Hashcash: 1:20:080410:christian.lynbech@tietoenator.com::vjA9werhHbDyuCNe:00000000000000000000000000000wAO In-Reply-To: (Lynbech Christian's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66780 Archived-At: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:51 +0200 Lynbech Christian wrote: LC> I am tracking some RSS feeds via nnrss which are password protected. Is LC> there any way to hardwire these passwords, rather than having to type LC> them in each time I start gnus? LC> I was hoping for a mechanism akin to ~/.authinfo that for instance LC> nnimap uses. How does this look? machine host://feed.xml username x password y protocol rss I'll put it on my TODO list for auth-source.el and netrc.el if you agree with the syntax. I know the URL is not a machine, but extending the authinfo format is tricky so I'd rather compromise. Ted