From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: problem w/ auth-required nntp site
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:13:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9aj27v9.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ofbhysl1.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> ("James H. Cloos Jr."'s message of "01 Sep 2002 23:32:26 -0400")
"James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> I've been unable to convince gnus to access an auth-required nntp
> server I recently re-subscribed to.
>
> I tried this in ~/.authinfo:
>
> machine hostname.elided.com login ME password PASSWD force
>
> but it was ignored, AFAICT.
>
> So how do I force gnus to authenticate even when it thinks it doesn't
> need to?
Maybe it works to add `nntp-send-authinfo' to `nntp-server-opened-hook'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 3:32 James H. Cloos Jr.
2002-09-03 1:13 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-09-03 1:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-04 4:34 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2002-09-04 6:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-04 4:42 ` Jesper Harder
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