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Re: No auto login to news
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: No auto login to news |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:57:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:26:35 -0600 notbob@bb.nothome.com wrote:
n> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:52:13 -0600 notbob@myvi.asdf wrote:
>> What version of Emacs and Gnus? Do you have auth-source.el available?
n> I have 3 systems. One, on which gnus DOES automatically login, is an
n> ancient 450 PII runnng emacs 22.2.1 and gnus 5.11. The other two
n> boxes are P4s running emacs 22.3.1 and 23.x.x, both also with gnus
n> 5.11. The two P4s will not auto login, no mater what I try. I should
n> indicate I have copied the P4s gnus files directly from the PII box.
n> These include: .emacs, .authinfo, .newsrc, and .newsrd.eld. The .gnus
n> and .gnus.el files from all 3 boxes exist, but all are empty.
>> I'll assume you want this to work without setting nntp-authinfo-file.
n> I seems to work on the PII box. The setting defaults to ~/.authinfo.
n> On the P4 boxes...... what ho! No such variable exists. Could this
n> be the culprit?
n> I know how to chage the setting of a variable, but not how to initiate
n> one. If this variable doesn't exist, how do I create it?
(setq variable value) works either way.
If, however, `C-h v auth-sources' doesn't show you something valid, you
don't have auth-source.el loaded. Does (featurep 'auth-source) return
t? It should be autoloaded when the auth-source-user-or-password
function is called, which happens automatically in nntp.el and many
other places *as of Emacs 23.1* and the Gnus version bundled in it.
With Emacs 22.x and earlier, you need the CVS version of Gnus in order
to have nntp.el and others autoload and use auth-source.el. The version
of Gnus in Emacs 22.x or earlier will not use auth-source.el, Emacs
bundled Gnus before that library came about IIRC.
Ted
Re: No auto login to news, notbob, 2009/08/26
- Re: No auto login to news,
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