"Otto J. Makela" <o...@iki.fi> writes: > Sorry if this is a very much FAQ item, but I really don't know where > else I could ask this question. > > With an operating system upgrade (to Fedora Linux 39) I also got a emacs > upgrade (to version 29.1) Some time in the ancient past I've simply set > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org")) > > in my .gnurc, and this still seems to work to select this as my default > nntp server. However, for some reason, the gnus 5.13 that came with this > emacs version no longer seems to read the plain-text .authinfo file from > my home directory. > > So at every gnus start time it asks me to manually enter the username > and password for this nntp server. What has changed, has the plain-text > file been depreciated in favor of the pgp-encrypted version? I couldn't > find any information on such a change.
Both encrypted and unencrypted versions are supported; maybe the `auth-sources' option only points at the encrypted version?
