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"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'.