From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: AUTHINFO
Date: 15 Feb 1998 18:29:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig4t20ai9a.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "15 Feb 1998 12:19:52 -0500"
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> One can indeed expect to log in to FTP and NNTP servers with
> different passwords. On Unix boxes, the FTP password is usually the
> login password for the account one is FTP-ing to. NNTP passwords
> are managed in the news server, and in my experience, they generally
> have nothing to do with any login passwords in /etc/passwd. If
> these two passwords are the same, it often is a coincidence.
Thank you.
As this is the case, I think it would be seriously wrong to use
`.netrc' here. A good name might be, say, `.authinfo' (it somehow
sounds better without `rc').
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-15 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-13 18:51 AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 6:55 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 16:01 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 17:03 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 19:31 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-14 19:42 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 20:38 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 23:30 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-15 5:28 ` AUTHINFO Felix Lee
1998-02-15 13:32 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:48 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 14:49 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 18:15 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 22:05 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 10:36 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 10:46 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 11:25 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 18:53 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 2:21 ` AUTHINFO Joev Dubach
1998-02-19 4:55 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-19 14:16 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 15:26 ` AUTHINFO Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-15 14:32 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 17:19 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-15 17:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-02-15 19:58 ` AUTHINFO Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-15 22:04 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 19:34 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 8:13 ` AUTHINFO Steinar Bang
1998-02-15 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 17:16 ` AUTHINFO Justin Sheehy
1998-02-14 19:22 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 16:27 ` feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Steinar Bang
1998-02-16 18:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 7:48 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 9:03 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 8:41 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 8:49 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-18 16:44 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-19 15:55 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 2:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 8:16 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 10:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 14:27 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 21:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 22:34 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-02-20 21:28 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 23:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 23:26 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-21 0:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-23 18:06 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-27 11:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-27 15:58 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-28 5:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-04 19:38 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-02-28 4:27 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-28 5:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-03 16:09 Authinfo Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-08 15:55 ` Authinfo Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 16:56 ` Authinfo Steinar Bang
1998-02-08 17:24 ` Authinfo Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-09 17:40 ` Authinfo Steinar Bang
1997-05-04 10:55 authinfo Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren
1997-05-04 20:06 ` authinfo Hrvoje Nikšić
1997-05-05 6:49 ` authinfo Steinar Bang
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