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Re: Is explicit inhibition of authentication supported now?
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XeCycle |
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Re: Is explicit inhibition of authentication supported now? |
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:09:31 +0800 |
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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 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?
Huh sorry, seems I missed the previous message. Perhaps my
leafnode was down for some time unnoticed --- I'm reading through
gmane.
I'm looking into it.
--
Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU
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