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PASSWD.NNTP(5) InterNetNews Documentation PASSWD.NNTP(5) NAME passwd.nntp - Passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers DESCRIPTION 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 ("#") 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. (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 "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.) For example: mit.edu:bbn:mypasswd uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo This file should not be world-readable. actsync, getlist, inews, innxbatch, innxmit, nnrpd, nntpget and rnews make use of passd.nntp when needing to connect to a remote server. HISTORY Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. SEE ALSO inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn(3). INN 2.8.0 2021-12-04 PASSWD.NNTP(5)
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