From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Unpleasant catch 22
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:26:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dsibq98.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871riquaqd.fsf@local.lan>
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
[...]
> Thanks; so not much use apparently.
Not much, I think it's weird.
>> This is separate from the fact that authentication failure of any server
>> shouldn't hang the whole startup process.
>
> No need to keep on in this vain as it is fixed in fortinc server.
Fixed for you, but not for the next user who runs into it!
>>......................Is the bum authentication
>> information for this server stored in ~/.authinfo{.gpg}? If it is, and
>> you delete the corresponding line, does Gnus prompt you anew for a
>> password to use?
>
> Egad I wish I'd have thought of that. I was mucking around with
>.authinfo trying different passwd etc... and still never cottoned to
> that simple fix.
>
> Although given the way gnus was resonded to bad authinfo, I suspect
> using the `prompted for' passwd and having a wrong passwd entered might
> still have stopped the music.
Possibly so, so we're back to fixing the underlying issue. Anyway, I'll
poke at it and try to figure out what's going on.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-25 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-23 23:03 Harry
2020-09-23 23:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24 0:36 ` Harry
2020-09-24 1:01 ` 黃炳熙
2020-09-24 4:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24 4:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24 21:27 ` Harry Putnam
2020-09-25 1:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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