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Re: How to setup a nntp server that needs user and password?


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: How to setup a nntp server that needs user and password?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:12:19 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:35:02 +0800 Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote: 

L> On 2011-03-24 16:29 +0800, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Put the required info into ~/.authinfo.  Something like
>> 
>> machine news.eternal-september.org login Leo password Supersecret force yes

L> Thanks, David, for this.

L> Oddly put it in .authinfo.gpg does not work.

Depending on your version of Gnus you may have auth-source.el
available.  See if (info "auth") works; if it does you can follow those
instructions to get started.

Using `auth-sources' is much better than backend-specific variables like
`nntp-authinfo-file' because the same authinfo file will work for nntp,
nnimap, Tramp, and so on (most of Gnus and Emacs).

Ted


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