From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14133 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 09:41:44 +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 1035153376 13149 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:16 +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 AAA09333 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:45:33 -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 CAA19633 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:43:57 -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 CAJ20682; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:43:21 -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 02:42:32 -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 CAA20666 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:42:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2469 invoked by uid 504); 17 Feb 1998 08:42:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2462 invoked from network); 17 Feb 1998 08:42:17 -0000 Original-Received: from norne.oslo.metis.no (195.0.254.238) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 1998 08:42:16 -0000 Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA10292; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:41:45 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "16 Feb 1998 19:58:26 +0100" Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.27/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14133 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14133 >>>>> 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. The only place I use authinfo, is to gain extra access to a server that doesn't challenge. I'd like to minimize the configuration hazzle for this. You don't have to reread the ~/authinfo file all the time, you just read the contents into an alist and re-read when the file has changed on the disk. This alist could have the same form as the one configurable by custom (is it possible to configure it using custom, and write the results back to the ~/.authinforc file?)