Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: atk101@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on tin: how to configure auto user/pwd Message-ID: <20030323173407.Q84458-100000@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <1518765.1048435031978.JavaMail.nobody@dewey.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 atk101@earthlink.net wrote: > I've read the man pages but see no option for configuring tin to auto magically enter a user name/password when it connect to the nntpserver. > Is there anyway to do this (my new provider require some random set of symbols for username and password which make it hard to enter manually all the time). If there is no way can you suggest an alternative news reader that might provide this option but is non-graphical and similar to tin ? To manually authenticate when connecting with tin use the -A flag when invoking it from the command line, which causes tin to prompt you on connection for the username and password. To automate this, create a .newsauth file containing the nntp server name and username and password in the format (described in man 5 tin): nntpserver.myisp.com mypassword myusername or nntpserver.myisp.com mypassword myusername@myisp.com Cheers, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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