Re: Is explicit inhibition of authentication supported now?

[XeCycle]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:14:41 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 
>
> TZ> On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:00 +0800 XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote: 
> X> Some time ago I was told that upon connecting a NNTP server the
> X> authinfo file is always read, so as not to miss any lines with
> X> `force' for the server.  But it causes inconvenience when my
> X> authinfo file is encrypted.
>
> X> So I came again to ask, can I now inhibit reading of
> X> authentication information for a specific server?  If not, I'm
> X> seriously requesting this feature.  I do have some sort of GPG
> X> agent running, but I think it better to give this option.
>
> TZ> see the attached patch.  I am not sure if the parameter will be called
> TZ> `nntp-auth' but please try applying the patch once and see if the logic
> TZ> is correct.  Let me know if you're not sure how to use this.
>
> ping?

Huh sorry, seems I missed the previous message.  Perhaps my
leafnode was down for some time unnoticed --- I'm reading through
gmane.

I'm looking into it.

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Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU
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