From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14059 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: 15 Feb 1998 12:19:52 -0500 Organization: SunSITE Denmark (sunsite.auc.dk) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153313 12696 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:35:13 +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 JAA05414 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:22:59 -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 LAA20527 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:21:19 -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 LAJ15545; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:20:49 -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 11:20:09 -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 LAA15532 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:20:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26209 invoked by uid 504); 15 Feb 1998 17:19:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26206 invoked from network); 15 Feb 1998 17:19:57 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (qmailr@130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 1998 17:19:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21775 invoked by uid 509); 15 Feb 1998 17:19:54 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ljz.asfast.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 887563193 21084 gnus 205.230.75.82 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Quassia Gnus v0.26/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14059 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14059 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > 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'. 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. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com