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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Cc: XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is explicit inhibition of authentication supported now?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obaqmck5.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2obbeeh5a.fsf@lifelogs.com>

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:14:41 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:00 +0800 XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote: 
X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
X> `force' for the server.  But it causes inconvenience when my
X> authinfo file is encrypted.

X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
X> authentication information for a specific server?  If not, I'm
X> seriously requesting this feature.  I do have some sort of GPG
X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.

TZ> see the attached patch.  I am not sure if the parameter will be called
TZ> `nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
TZ> is correct.  Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.

ping?

Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-28 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.25474.1368199821.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2013-06-10  4:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-28 16:20   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-06-29  2:09     ` XeCycle
2013-05-10 15:30 XeCycle

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