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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.