On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:36:02AM -0600, Dmitri Matrossov wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I am trying to get any newsreader(i would probably prefer pine) to work
> with university news server , but they have user/password authentication
> on this server.
>
> I cannot find this option on any of the newsreaders i have, and i dont
> like using netscapes utilites, because i prefer to work i command line.
>
> Can anyone give me any hints how to set this up?
>
> Thanks.
A quick search shows you can probably change your .pinerc file to include
a line like:
nntp-server=yournewsserver.com/user=username
and be prompted for the password by pine. No idea if that actually works.
I have always been a trn user. Version 3.6 doesn't have authentication,
but the 4.0 test versions do and I have been using them for a couple of
years. http://freshmeat.net has links to trn. Also, tin should allow you
to set up user/password pairs (I think in the .newsauth file), check the
man page. Other possibilities include slrn and gnus.
Daniel
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