From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: problem w/ auth-required nntp site
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:24:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluznuzg91b.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y9aj27v9.fsf@defun.localdomain> (Jesper Harder's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:13:14 +0200")
Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
> "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
>
>> I've been unable to convince gnus to access an auth-required nntp
>> server I recently re-subscribed to.
>>
>> I tried this in ~/.authinfo:
>>
>> machine hostname.elided.com login ME password PASSWD force
>>
>> but it was ignored, AFAICT.
>>
>> So how do I force gnus to authenticate even when it thinks it doesn't
>> need to?
>
> Maybe it works to add `nntp-send-authinfo' to `nntp-server-opened-hook'.
`nntp-send-authinfo' should be called by default. Perhaps edebugging
n-s-a helps?
Hm. Maybe the port must be specified, perhaps the following .authinfo
line work better?
machine hostname.elided.com login ME password port nntp PASSWD force
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 3:32 James H. Cloos Jr.
2002-09-03 1:13 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-03 1:24 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-09-04 4:34 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2002-09-04 6:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-04 4:42 ` Jesper Harder
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