Re: Gnus and authinfo

[Eric Abrahamsen]

"Otto J. Makela" <om@iki.fi> writes:

> Sorry if this is a very much FAQ item, but I really don't know where
> else I could ask this question.
>
> With an operating system upgrade (to Fedora Linux 39) I also got a emacs
> upgrade (to version 29.1) Some time in the ancient past I've simply set
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org"))
>
> in my .gnurc, and this still seems to work to select this as my default
> nntp server. However, for some reason, the gnus 5.13 that came with this
> emacs version no longer seems to read the plain-text .authinfo file from
> my home directory.
>
> So at every gnus start time it asks me to manually enter the username
> and password for this nntp server. What has changed, has the plain-text
> file been depreciated in favor of the pgp-encrypted version? I couldn't
> find any information on such a change.

Both encrypted and unencrypted versions are supported; maybe the
`auth-sources' option only points at the encrypted version?