From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14167 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: 18 Feb 1998 17:44:15 +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 1035153404 13352 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:44 +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 IAA13555 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:48:04 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24179 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:46:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAN10246; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:22:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:45:22 -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 KAA21094 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:45:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 10042 invoked by uid 504); 18 Feb 1998 16:45:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10039 invoked from network); 18 Feb 1998 16:45:03 -0000 Original-Received: from norne.oslo.metis.no (195.0.254.238) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 1998 16:45:01 -0000 Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA22988; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:44:16 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "18 Feb 1998 13:19:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.29/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14167 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14167 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang writes: >> 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 > Why should 3) look into .authinforc when 1) already has established > that it doesn't exist there? Indeed. I got a bit ahead of myself in my eagerness to convince you...:-) > Anyways, the problem is to decide which servers to send authinfo to > automatically. I say we add some token to .authinforc -- "force", > perhaps? Or (to keep compatibility with .netrc), have the user name > be of a certain form? "login force:larsi" to say to nntp that it > should always send authinfo for this server? Both will work for me. And keeping as much compatibility with .netrc as possible sounds like a good thing? (Unless usernames with colons in them may exist on certain newsservers, and this may cause problems...? Not likely, but you never know...) - Steinar