passwd.nntp man page
passwd.nntp — 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 ( 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 For example: This file should not be world-readable. Written by Rich getlist(1), inews(1), inncheck(8), innxmit(8), libinn(3).Description
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) are ignored. All other lines should consist of three or four fields separated by colons: host:name:password
host:name:password:style
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.) ## UUNET needs a password, MIT doesn't.
mit.edu:bbn::authinfo
uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo
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