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(passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers)
The file passwd.nntp in pathetc contains host / name / password
triplets for use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers.
This file is normally interpreted by NNTPsendpassword() 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. (No detailed matching, such as comparing IP addresses, is done.)
The second field is a user name, and the third is a password. If either the username or password is empty, then that portion of the authentication will not occur. (For example, when connecting to a remote INN for peering, only the password is needed.)
The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use.
At present, the only recognized "authentication style" is authinfo
;
this is also the default. It means that NNTP "authinfo" commands are
used to authenticate to the remote host. (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.
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision $Revision$, dated $Date$.
$Id$
inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn(3).
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