* New authinfo setup
@ 1998-02-17 11:51 Harry Putnam
1998-02-17 20:17 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-19 0:13 ` Jason R Mastaler
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Harry Putnam @ 1998-02-17 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Group,
Nice job on the 0.29 info section covering the new authinfo stuff.
Good examples too.
Still having a problem opening sunsite.auc.dk though
I have the emacs.ding group like so in group buffer:
nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding (as a foreign group)
When ever I start qgnus 0.29 (before making an .authinforc file)
I am prompted for my main nntp server user name and password and also
for a user name and password for "sunsite.auc.dk".
The prompt looks like:
NNTP (sunsite.auc.dk) user name:
NNTP (sunsite.auc.dk) password:
If I hit <RET> and <RET> repectively, gnus gets the emacs.ding postings.
So apparently defaults are all thats needed.
Now since I made an .authinforc file that looks like;
machine enews.newsguy.com login reader password xxxxxxxx
machine sunsite.auc.dk login <don't know> password <don't know>
Every thing I could think of to put in the second line for login and
password (including login anonymous password reader@newsguy.com)
Draws a "502 authentication error"
If I leave the line out, I am back to hitting <RET> at the prompts for
nntp+sunsite.auc.dk.
--
Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com
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* Re: New authinfo setup
1998-02-17 20:17 ` Steinar Bang
@ 1998-02-17 12:47 ` Harry Putnam
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From: Harry Putnam @ 1998-02-17 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
[...]
>
> Hm... if sunsite doesn't challenge for authentication, you shouldn't
> need that last line.
>
> Do you have
> (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
> set? What does
> C-h v nntp-server-opened-hook RET
> say?
Yes, it was set to nntp-send-authinfo
>
> Try removing nntp-send-authinfo from nntp-server-opened-hook, and
> removing the sunsite line from ~/.authinfo.
>
Bingo! Thanks, should have caught that myself.
--
Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com
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* Re: New authinfo setup
1998-02-17 11:51 New authinfo setup Harry Putnam
@ 1998-02-17 20:17 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 12:47 ` Harry Putnam
1998-02-19 0:13 ` Jason R Mastaler
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Steinar Bang @ 1998-02-17 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:
> Now since I made an .authinforc file that looks like;
> machine enews.newsguy.com login reader password xxxxxxxx
> machine sunsite.auc.dk login <don't know> password <don't know>
> Every thing I could think of to put in the second line for login and
> password (including login anonymous password reader@newsguy.com)
> Draws a "502 authentication error"
> If I leave the line out, I am back to hitting <RET> at the prompts for
> nntp+sunsite.auc.dk.
Hm... if sunsite doesn't challenge for authentication, you shouldn't
need that last line.
Do you have
(add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
set? What does
C-h v nntp-server-opened-hook RET
say?
Try removing nntp-send-authinfo from nntp-server-opened-hook, and
removing the sunsite line from ~/.authinfo.
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* Re: New authinfo setup
1998-02-17 11:51 New authinfo setup Harry Putnam
1998-02-17 20:17 ` Steinar Bang
@ 1998-02-19 0:13 ` Jason R Mastaler
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jason R Mastaler @ 1998-02-19 0:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Nice job on the 0.29 info section covering the new authinfo stuff.
Yes, looks good except for a small typo.
1998-02-18 Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org>
* gnus.texi: Corrected typo.
--- texi/gnus.texi.orig Mon Feb 16 22:59:47 1998
+++ texi/gnus.texi Wed Feb 18 16:57:37 1998
@@ -8891,7 +8891,7 @@
former server, while the latter has only the login name listed, and the
user will be prompted for the password.
-Remember to not leave the @file{~/.netrc} world-readable.
+Remember to not leave the @file{~/.authinforc} world-readable.
@item nntp-server-action-alist
@vindex nntp-server-action-alist
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