502 Permission denied with ~/.authinfo.gpg

502 Permission denied with ~/.authinfo.gpg

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi,

since I've succeeded in setting up the gpg-agent I'm finally running
Gnus with an encrypted ~/.authinfo.gpg.  Now I have one last problem
with the news server of my university:

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "Uni"
                    (nntp-address "news.uni-koblenz.de")))

That server doesn't need credentials, but when you don't login, you'll
see only a handful of university interal groups.  With login, you get
all of the usenet.

To force login, I had this in my ~/.authinfo (note the force yes):

  machine news.uni-koblenz.de login XXX password XXX force yes

That line is still in the encrypted ~/.authinfo.gpg, but it seems Gnus
doesn't login.  At least when trying to enter a group, I get this error:

  gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn't request group
    nntp+Uni:alt.religion.emacs: 502 Permission denied

and in *Group* all groups of that server have a * in front of them.

As soon as I switch back to a plain-text ~/.authinfo, it works again.
What's the problem?

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: 502 Permission denied with ~/.authinfo.gpg

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> As soon as I switch back to a plain-text ~/.authinfo, it works again.
> What's the problem?

nntp.el hasn't been (fully) converted to use auth-sources yet.  You
probably need to set `nntp-authinfo-file' to get it to work.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: 502 Permission denied with ~/.authinfo.gpg

[Tassilo Horn]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Hey Lars,

>> As soon as I switch back to a plain-text ~/.authinfo, it works again.
>> What's the problem?
>
> nntp.el hasn't been (fully) converted to use auth-sources yet.  You
> probably need to set `nntp-authinfo-file' to get it to work.

Yes, that does the trick.

Thanks,
Tassilo

Re: 502 Permission denied with ~/.authinfo.gpg

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:12:13 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> As soon as I switch back to a plain-text ~/.authinfo, it works again.
>> What's the problem?

LMI> nntp.el hasn't been (fully) converted to use auth-sources yet.  You
LMI> probably need to set `nntp-authinfo-file' to get it to work.

Tassilo, is this fixed for you now?

Ted