Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:07:37 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure Newsreader Message-ID: <XFMail.980119080918.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117130818.5516F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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
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