Re: gnus for newsgroups - passwords

[Xavier Maillard]

On  6 May 2004, David Hansen wrote:

> On 6 May 2004 12:43:18 GMT kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) wrote:
> 
> > Our  NNTP server  may start  to use  "authentication", where  I must
> > enter a user name and password to connect. Does gnus support this?
> 
> Put this in ~/.authinfo:

Or wherever you want your authinfo file  to be but then you will have to
tell gnus where to find it with this:

,----[ C-h v nntp-authinfo-file RET ]
| nntp-authinfo-file's value is "~/.authinfo"
| 
| .netrc-like file that holds nntp authinfo passwords.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `nntp'.
| 
| [back]
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Regards,
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