Index for Section 5

Alphabetical listing for P

Bottom of page

PASSWD.NNTP(5)
NAME
  passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers

DESCRIPTION
  The file <pathetc in inn.conf>/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.

HISTORY
  Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is
  revision 1.5, dated 1998/04/09.

SEE ALSO
  inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn(3).

Index for Section 5

Alphabetical listing for P

Top of page