Re: AUTHINFO

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:

> Hey great, function `nntp-send-nosy-authinfo' worked for me without help
> for the first time.  How bout adding a `nntp-send-nosy-authinfo-from-file' 
> to the list of available functions for those of us whose current login
> name differs from the NNTP server username we authenticate with?  I'm
> using the following at the moment.  My ~/.nntp-authinfo file has the
> username on the first line and the password on the second line.

I think there already are too many authinfo functions, so it's time to
do something radical:  Introduce something that looks like .netrc.  It
could be called .authinforc, and it could use syntax like:

machine news.uio.no login larsi password geheimnis 

If the password (and/or user name) is missing, it will be prompted
for.  I think the default authinfo function should do this, and if the
file doesn't exist, it should prompt for both user name and password.

I think I'll just copy the ange-ftp parsing functions (somewhat); they
can't be used directly, since the set bunches of ange-ftp variables.
I'll make a generalized version instead.

Any thoughts?

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