From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 05:09:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24708 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 05:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (exim@iglou1.iglou.com [192.107.41.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA24658 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 05:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.125] by iglou.com with smtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0xuGwl-0005oO-00; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:09:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:07:37 -0500 (EST) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: Doug White Subject: Re: Secure Newsreader Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk No wacky forms, just username and password. KNews didn't like it when I tried to read the news. I get a "Failed to read active file!" error. I'm using pine for now, until I can get knews or something similar working! Patrick On 17-Jan-98 Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote: > >> Since I can't look anything up in the archives, I thought I would ask it >here. >> >> I need a newsreader to access a protected news feed. I was using knews >until >> the server started requiring username and passwords. > >I remember knews dinging me for a username and password when I accessed a >authenticated server here at the UO. > >Are they using some wacky form of authentication? (Kerberos?) > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major