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:

##  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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