Re: Authinfo & multiple servers

[dubach1@fas.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Sure, that code was nice, but there are so many tweakable backend
> settings that writing functions like that for them all is a rather
> endless task.  So the canonical way to do those things is to modify
> the virtual servers and write simple component functions.

Usernames/passwords are a special case, however.  I want them to be on
disk, so that I don't have to reenter them every time I connect to a
password-protected nntp server.  Yet they can't go in my
..emacs/.gnus/.newsrc.eld, as I give these files away at a moment's
notice.  The only currently supported way of meeting these constraints
is to put them into ~/.nntp-authinfo and use
nntp-send-authinfo-from-file; however, this loses if I have more than
one server/account/password that I want to access.

Really, I think for this particular example, it's more appropriate to
have a general function that I can set globally or add to all the
appropriate servers' definitions as I like, than to have to write new
code for every new server.  Passwords are special.

Joev                            <URL:http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dubach1/>

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