From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 7:57:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D693737B404 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6724D43F93 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atk101@earthlink.net) Received: from dewey.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.219]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18x7qS-0003pn-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:57:12 -0800 Received: from [207.217.78.11] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Sun Mar 23 07:57:11 PST 2003 Message-ID: <1518765.1048435031978.JavaMail.nobody@dewey.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:57:03 -0500 (GMT) From: atk101@earthlink.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: question on tin: how to configure auto user/pwd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ? Thanks, Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message