From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14048 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: 15 Feb 1998 15:32:40 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153304 12593 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03601 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 06:35:38 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA19903 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:34:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAJ13175; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:33:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:32:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA13162 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:32:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25642 invoked by uid 504); 15 Feb 1998 14:32:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25639 invoked from network); 15 Feb 1998 14:32:42 -0000 Original-Received: from jagor.srce.hr (hniksic@161.53.2.130) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 1998 14:32:42 -0000 Original-Received: (from hniksic@localhost) by jagor.srce.hr (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08472; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:32:41 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: Mie8:rOV<\c/~z{s.X4A{!?vY7{drJ([U]0O=W/xDi&N7XG KV^$k0m3Oe/)'e%3=$PCR&3ITUXH,cK>]bci&Ff%x_>1`T(+M2Gg/fgndU%k*ft [(7._6e0n-V%|%'[c|q:;}td$#INd+;?!-V=c8Pqf}3J In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "15 Feb 1998 14:32:42 +0100" Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.23/XEmacs 20.5(beta21) - "Golden Guernsey" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14048 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14048 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > For example, people with FTP access to their newsserver who use this > > Gnus option will inadvertently be losing the FTP session password > > protection they once had. > > You mean, since the password is stored in clear text? But that's > the case in any case. Or do you mean that miscreants will be able > to sneak up to a logged-in terminal and ftp to the nntp server? I > hadn't thought of that... > > I dunno. Let's have a vote: ~/.netrc or, uhm, ~/.authinforc as the > default file? I'd like it cleared up: Can one expect to login to FTP and NNTP servers with different passwords? If yes, I vote for `.authinforc'. If not, I vote for `.netrc'. Simon Josefsson writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > > I dunno. Let's have a vote: ~/.netrc or, uhm, ~/.authinforc as the > > default file? > > Why can't it be a emacs variable? It will be an Emacs variable -- the vote is for its default value. :-) -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- You'll notice that perl is not itself written in Perl. -- The Perl FAQ