On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 03:13:08AM -0500, zentara stated:
Hi,
Well I'm trying to get News going. I'm used to Agent under windows, and I have used it under Wabi with some minor drawbacks.
I would like to get Knews or Xrn going, they connect but return either ---error 502, authentication failed or --- failed to get list
I'm sure this is the authentication problem.
Is there a way around this?
I have seen mention of a perl module that will log on to newsserver requiring authentication. Anyone know anything about this? Is a perl script available that I can use to log on then , launch Knews?
I don't want to go back to wabi and agent, it requires that Xkeyboard is disabled, and it makes the backspace key useless in X.
You can use knews and include authentication in its config file. Check out the man page on knews. I reprint the pertinent parts right here- authInfoPass authInfoUser These are used to implement the NNTP AUTHINFO USER/PASS protocol if required by the server. These exist mostly for backward compatibility; authentication is usually only required when post ing, and then it is better to use inews for postin gAgent, since presumably inews knows all about the required authentication. Hope this helps.
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