From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4675 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: .authinfo is ignored on startup Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:26:53 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4nwts8zrwy.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670546 24279 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:08 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net bBKekCVoWwFXcISGREcKnAu9SJpN1G7VjosBDRjIw2a9UFxW+q X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jUt9sUHXPMiM5Gmn3hgsBHKoNqE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4816 Original-Lines: 20 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4816 Tue Jan 17 17:34:08 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4675 Archived-At: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > I'm trying a different newsserver for a while and put the needed info > in ~/.authinfo. However, when I start gnus it still prompts me for my > uid and passwd. I've tripple checked that its entered correctly. > > I type the exact same info at the 2 prompts and get the news. How can > I debug this? > > Its on winxp and No Gnus v0.3 Can you show the authinfo line, edited for password, and the server name as Gnus knows it? I think netrc.el needs a rewrite for better logging. I tried to do it but didn't have the time, and the current logic has a look-ahead loop that makes logging much more difficult than it should be. It's not hard to rewrite it so maybe I'll do it if no one else wants to. Ted