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Re: trn nntp authorization



On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:56:09AM -0400, rir wrote:

> > How do I get trn to authorize.  I can connect manually:

> > $ telnet newsgroups.comcast.net nntp
> > Trying 216.196.97.136...
> > Connected to comcast.dca.giganews.com.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 200 News.GigaNews.Com
> > authinfo user _username_
> > 381 more authentication required
> > authinfo pass _password_
> > 281 News.GigaNews.Com
> 
> You should have a /etc/trn4/access.def file, which has decent comments on
> what to set. I set the following:
> 
> NNTP Server
> Auth User
> Auth Password
> Force Auth

I have /etc/trn4/access.def readable and containing:

#NNTP Server = /etc/news/server
NNTP Server = nonesuch.none
Auth User = me@host.net
Auth Password = mypass

But trn4 seems to ignore the file. It seems that trn4 is looking
to /etc/news/server, always.  If I put a bogus hostname
in access.def, trn looks to /etc/news/server; if /etc/news/server
is empty I get:

Connecting to /etc/news/server.../etc/news/server: Unknown host.
failed.

There is a /usr/share/trn4/access.def, but it is just a symlink to
/etc/trn4/access.def.

Thanks,
rir


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