PASSWD.NNTP
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NAME
passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers
DESCRIPTION
The file
/news/news/passwd.nntp
contains host-name-password triplets for use when authenticating client
programs to NNTP servers.
This file is normally interpreted by the
NNTPsendpassword
routine in
libinn(3).
Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign (``#'') are ignored.
All other lines should consist of three or fields separated by colons:
-
host:name:password
host:name:password:style
The first field is the name of a host, and is matched in a case-insensitive
manner.
The second field is a user name, and the third is a password.
The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use.
The default is ``authinfo'' which means that NNTP ``authinfo''
commands are used to authenticate to the remote host.
If either the username or password are empty, then the related command will
not be sent.
(The ``authinfo'' command is common extension to RFC 977.)
For example:
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## UUNET needs a password, MIT doesn't.
mit.edu:bbn::authinfo
uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo
This file should not be world-readable.
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
This is revision 1.11, dated 1992/08/19.
SEE ALSO
innd(8),
libinn(3).
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