From: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Subject: Re: newuser, help
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:12:44 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptvr2j4k.fsf@hartford-hwp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6FED17.6040201@yahoo.com.cn>
I'm also a newcomer, but discovered more or less by accident that to
get started I also needed to create a file: ~/.authinfo with the
following content in order to access the news server (which happens to
be news.snet.sbcglobal.net):
machine news.snet.sbcglobal.net login uid password password
machine localhost login news password snet
Here I've used the word "password" for my password, and "uid" for my
user ID assigned by my ISP. While I suspect the second line here is
flawed, at least it works.
Any lurker willing to explain the syntax of the second line?
--
Haines Brown
brownh@hartford-hwp.com
kb1grm@arrl.net
www.hartford-hwp.com
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[not found] <lcoumukovevvjjmjdn1svsl8ns6316aoca@4ax.com>
2002-08-30 22:09 ` Wu XiaoGuang
2002-09-06 16:12 ` Haines Brown [this message]
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