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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
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Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?  Who knows?  Who cares?