From: Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org>
Subject: Re: AUTHINFO
Date: 15 Feb 1998 12:34:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x77m6waci3.fsf@4b.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "15 Feb 1998 15:32:40 +0100"
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> I'd like it cleared up: Can one expect to login to FTP and NNTP
> servers with different passwords? If yes, I vote for `.authinforc'.
> If not, I vote for `.netrc'.
It can be either way. As Lloyd pointed out, the password can be
different, but it can also be the same (as in my situation). Many
ISP's give the user one password for both FTP and NNTP. In both
cases, problems can surface when using .netrc for both FTP and NNTP.
If you use seperate files, these potential risks/problems go away. An
additional 1KB dot file isn't going to burn anyones disk quota, and
mentioning the file permissions issue in the manual is enough to
handle the protection issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-15 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-13 18:51 AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 6:55 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 16:01 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 17:03 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 19:31 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-14 19:42 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 20:38 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 23:30 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-15 5:28 ` AUTHINFO Felix Lee
1998-02-15 13:32 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:48 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 14:49 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 18:15 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 22:05 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 10:36 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 10:46 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 11:25 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 18:53 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 2:21 ` AUTHINFO Joev Dubach
1998-02-19 4:55 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-19 14:16 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 15:26 ` AUTHINFO Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-15 14:32 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 17:19 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-15 17:29 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 19:58 ` AUTHINFO Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-15 22:04 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 19:34 ` Jason R Mastaler [this message]
1998-02-16 8:13 ` AUTHINFO Steinar Bang
1998-02-15 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 17:16 ` AUTHINFO Justin Sheehy
1998-02-14 19:22 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 16:27 ` feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Steinar Bang
1998-02-16 18:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 7:48 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 9:03 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 8:41 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 8:49 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-18 16:44 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-19 15:55 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 2:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 8:16 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 10:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 14:27 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 21:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 22:34 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-02-20 21:28 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 23:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 23:26 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-21 0:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-23 18:06 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-27 11:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-27 15:58 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-28 5:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-04 19:38 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-02-28 4:27 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-28 5:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-03 16:09 Authinfo Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-08 15:55 ` Authinfo Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 16:56 ` Authinfo Steinar Bang
1998-02-08 17:24 ` Authinfo Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-09 17:40 ` Authinfo Steinar Bang
1997-05-04 10:55 authinfo Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren
1997-05-04 20:06 ` authinfo Hrvoje Nikšić
1997-05-05 6:49 ` authinfo Steinar Bang
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