Re: Forcing authentication on a server

[Andy Eskilsson <andy.eskilsson@telelogic.se>]

/ Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> wrote:
| Platform: qgnus-0.22, GNU emacs 19.34, SPARC, Solaris 2.5
| 
| The FAQ says the following about using an NNTP server with
| authentication: 
| 	(add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
| 
| I've also tried
| 	(add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-nosy-authinfo)
| 
| 
| But this only works on an NNTP server that demands authentication,
| right...? 

Hmm shouldn't?? The functions above just sends the authinfo commands
if I read the code right, doesn't check if the server wants
authentification.

| New question: would it be an idea to add a general mechanism that
| would let you set username and password in the Group Info of a foreign
| NNTP group?

I vote for this!!! At the moment I have created my own function that I
point the authentification function at that sends the login and pass.

Uhm am I the only one having problems with hangs after entering
user/pass, pressing C-g fixes and I can continue to read news from
that server, but when gnus-async kicks away and I have answered
user/login I can't abort it with C-g.

	/andy

BTW What is mode stream?? (Messing around with dnews servers, are
there any good docs for the extra commands and so on? I have a hard
time finding a RFC with for example XOVER in it