Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> writes:

> I have a local leafnode server which doesn't need authentication,
> and a .authinfo.gpg containing info for sending a mail.  Now I'm
> prompted for a password on Gnus startup, which is quite bothering
> --- can I tell Gnus that this server *never* needs authentication
> and don't look for authinfo entries?

Nope.  If you have an .authinfo(.gpg) file, most network functions will
inspect it to see whether there's any "force" entries in the file.

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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[XeCycle]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a local leafnode server which doesn't need authentication,
>> and a .authinfo.gpg containing info for sending a mail.  Now I'm
>> prompted for a password on Gnus startup, which is quite bothering
>> --- can I tell Gnus that this server *never* needs authentication
>> and don't look for authinfo entries?
>
> Nope.  If you have an .authinfo(.gpg) file, most network functions will
> inspect it to see whether there's any "force" entries in the file.

:(

Can I request this feature, then?

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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> writes:

>> Nope.  If you have an .authinfo(.gpg) file, most network functions will
>> inspect it to see whether there's any "force" entries in the file.
>
> :(
>
> Can I request this feature, then?

Set up a gpg agent so that you don't have to enter the gpg password all
the time, if you want to use the .gpg file.

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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[XeCycle]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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> Set up a gpg agent so that you don't have to enter the gpg password all
> the time, if you want to use the .gpg file.

I already set up one, in a way that I need to enter it on the
first startup of Gnus in this boot.

However I think it's better to be able to bypass the checking of
existence of a server, or at least, bypass the default .authinfo
file when a (nntp-authinfo-file) is specified.  I would assume
this parameter tells Gnus to find its authinfo in that file, and
skipping default files.  I set that to "/dev/null", but useless.

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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> writes:

> However I think it's better to be able to bypass the checking of
> existence of a server, or at least, bypass the default .authinfo
> file when a (nntp-authinfo-file) is specified.  I would assume
> this parameter tells Gnus to find its authinfo in that file, and
> skipping default files.

It's an obsolete variable.

See the auth-source variables instead.

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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[XeCycle]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> However I think it's better to be able to bypass the checking of
>> existence of a server, or at least, bypass the default .authinfo
>> file when a (nntp-authinfo-file) is specified.  I would assume
>> this parameter tells Gnus to find its authinfo in that file, and
>> skipping default files.
>
> It's an obsolete variable.
>
> See the auth-source variables instead.

Thanks.  It isn't obvious in the Gnus manual.

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Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?

[XeCycle]

I have a local leafnode server which doesn't need authentication,
and a .authinfo.gpg containing info for sending a mail.  Now I'm
prompted for a password on Gnus startup, which is quite bothering
--- can I tell Gnus that this server *never* needs authentication
and don't look for authinfo entries?

Thank you.

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Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
OpenPGP public key: 7795E591
Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591