From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14134 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Date: 17 Feb 1998 09:49:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153377 13160 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09599 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:52:57 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA19640 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:51:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAJ20993; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:50:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:50:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA20976 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:49:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2511 invoked by uid 504); 17 Feb 1998 08:49:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2508 invoked from network); 17 Feb 1998 08:49:52 -0000 Original-Received: from norne.oslo.metis.no (195.0.254.238) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 1998 08:49:51 -0000 Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA10319; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:49:19 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "17 Feb 1998 09:41:44 +0100" Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.27/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14134 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14134 >>>>> Steinar Bang : >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : >> The new approach is to only send authinfo when challenged. If you >> want to force sending authinfo for some servers, you should put the >> authinfo function into the server-opened hook for those servers. > I prefer an approach where you always check ~/.autinforc (or > whatever), for the server, and send authinfo whether challenged or > not. Ie. the following behaviour: 1. if authinfo entry for this server found, send it whether challenged or not, prompt for username and password if missing 2. if no authinfo entry found, and no challenge is issued don't send authinfo 3. If challenged look for authinfo for the server in the ~/.authinforc, and prompt for missing username and password, the way it presumably does