From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5659 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how to do authinfo for only one group? Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:48:15 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146231 966 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:37:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA08453 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:52:30 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:48:17 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:48:16 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 21 Mar 1996 15:10:10 -0500 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5659 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5659 gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes: > When authorization is required, the server will send a 480 > response requesting authorization from the client. I've now added this to the Red Gnus todo list. I don't think it's all that important, though -- no nntp servers choke on getting an AUTHINFO on connection. Although that sounds a bit insecure, come to think of if. One doesn't want to send passwords to servers that do not ask for them... -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."