passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers
The file
/etc/news/passwd.nntp contains host-name-password triplets for
use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers. This file is normally
interpreted by the
NNTPsendpassword routine 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. The second field is a user name, and the third is a password. The
optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use. The default
is ``authinfo'' which means that NNTP ``authinfo'' commands are used to
authenticate to the remote host. If either the username or password are empty,
then the related command will not be sent. (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 <
[email protected]> for InterNetNews. This is
revision 1.14, dated 1996/09/06.
innd(8),
libinn(3).