From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46342 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: problem w/ auth-required nntp site Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:24:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031016229 19655 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 01:23:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17m2Q0-00056u-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17m2Qs-00056M-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:25:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA23899 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:25:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21928 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2002 01:24:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21923 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2002 01:24:21 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2002 01:24:21 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g831OIn3030455 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Sep 2002 03:24:19 +0200 Original-To: Jesper Harder Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:020903:harder@ifa.au.dk:d1871b03de7a10ea X-Hashcash: 0:020903:ding@gnus.org:ba3517be2080f9ed In-Reply-To: (Jesper Harder's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:13:14 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46342 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46342 Jesper Harder writes: > "James H. Cloos Jr." 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