Re: No auto login to news

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:52:13 -0600 notbob@myvi.asdf wrote: 

n> I've set up a new box and most things look ok, but I still can't get
n> gnus to login to my nntp server without having to do it manually each
n> time.  I got the server ok, my .authinfo file looks good, I've got my
n> old customized .emacs file working.  I'm stumped.  Seems there's a
n> variable somewhere I'm missing.  The one that grabs the info in the
n> ~/.authinfo file and uses it.  Works ok on my other box, but not this
n> one, despite same ver of linux and emacs.  I'm even letting my dribble
n> file run amok and saving it.  What am I missing?

n> Here's my .authinfo file:

n> machine us.Usenet-News.net login notbob@pp.newsgroups.user password
n> xxxxxxxx port 119 force yes  

What version of Emacs and Gnus?  Do you have auth-source.el available?

I'll assume you want this to work without setting nntp-authinfo-file.
If you set that, it's only for nntp so it's less useful than the general
auth-source solution which is available since Emacs 23.1.

Can you set auth-source-debug to t and see what shows up in the
*Messages* buffer?  There should at least be a 

  (auth-source-do-debug
   "auth-source-user-or-password: get %s for %s (%s)"
   mode host protocol)

log message in there.  If not, auth-source is not getting called.

Thanks
Ted