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(Passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers)
The file pathetc/passwd.nntp 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, a server may require only a username, in which case the password is not necessary. Note that a username is mandatory with AUTHINFO USER/PASS.)
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 AUTHINFO USER/PASS commands
are used to authenticate to the remote host. (These NNTP commands
are described in RFC 4643.)
For example:
mit.edu:bbn:mypasswd uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo
This file should not be world-readable.
actsync, getlist, inews, innxbatch, innxmit, nnrpd, nntpget and rnews make use of passd.nntp when needing to connect to a remote server.
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn(3).
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