Re: NNTP authentification for Gnus -- how to?

[dubach@dcepea.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach)]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> I seem to be a bit stupid on how to do NNTP authentification for
> Gnus.  Let's suppose my main NNTP server (i.e. gnus-select-method) is
> a public news server that doesn't require user-id and password.  Let's
> suppose further that I'd also like to have access to several NNTP
> servers all requiring different user-ids and/or passwords.

In my experience this requires a bit of additional code to work properly:

---- authentication-handling from my .emacs-gnus begins ----
(require 'cl)

; "my-nntp-send-authinfo-from-file" was taken from sample code posted
; to the (ding) Gnus mailing list, and will hopefully be
; incorporated in a future version of Gnus.
(defvar my-nntp-authinfo-file "~/.my-nntp-authinfo"
  "Each line of `my-nntp-authinfo-file' should be of the form:

  `SERVER USER PASS'.")

(defun my-nntp-send-authinfo-from-file ()
  (when (file-exists-p my-nntp-authinfo-file)
    (nnheader-temp-write nil
      (insert-file-contents my-nntp-authinfo-file)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (if (re-search-forward
           (format "^%s \\([^ \n]+\\) \\([^ \n]+\\)$"
                   nntp-address)
           nil t nil)
          (let ((user (match-string 1))
                (pass (match-string 2)))
            (nntp-send-command "^.*\r?\n" "AUTHINFO USER" user)
            (nntp-send-command "^.*\r?\n" "AUTHINFO PASS" pass))))))

(add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'my-nntp-send-authinfo-from-file)
---- authentication-handling from my .emacs-gnus ends ----

---- .my-nntp-authinfo begins ----
server1 username1 password1
server2 username2 password2
---- .my-nntp-authinfo ends ----

Hope this helps.

Joev

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