From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14104 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Date: 16 Feb 1998 17:27:13 +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 1035153351 12948 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:35:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:35:51 +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 JAA10280 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:28:06 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sys@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14782 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:26:31 -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 LAJ04272; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:18 -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 LAA04257 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 31382 invoked by uid 504); 16 Feb 1998 17:25:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31379 invoked from network); 16 Feb 1998 17:25:04 -0000 Original-Received: from abel.metis.no (HELO gw.metis.no) (193.90.64.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 1998 17:25:03 -0000 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA08834; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:41:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA06754; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:41:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA08532; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:27:14 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Feb 1998 17:01:28 +0100" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.27/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14104 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14104 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > I think there already are too many authinfo functions, so it's time to > do something radical: Introduce something that looks like .netrc. It > could be called .authinforc, and it could use syntax like: > machine news.uio.no login larsi password geheimnis > If the password (and/or user name) is missing, it will be prompted > for. I think the default authinfo function should do this, and if the > file doesn't exist, it should prompt for both user name and password. > I think I'll just copy the ange-ftp parsing functions (somewhat); they > can't be used directly, since the set bunches of ange-ftp variables. > I'll make a generalized version instead. > Any thoughts? I've tried the current version (0.27) that uses ~/.netrc in nntp-send-authinfo, and we need a syntax for excluding machines from password sending. Either we don't send authinfo to machines not found in the ~/.netrc or ~/.authinforc (or whatever) file or we put in machine names without any password or user name. I prefer the first approach.