PASSWD.NNTP (5)
passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers
DESCRIPTION
The file
<pathetc in inn.conf>/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 four 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 a 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.
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This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
$Id: passwd.nntp.5,v 1.1.2.1 1999/06/12 08:22:59 kondou Exp $
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