passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers

The file passwd.nntp in pathetc 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 (CW#) 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, when connecting to a remote INN for peering, only the password is needed.)

The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use. At present, the only recognized authentication style is CWauthinfo; this is also the default. It means that NNTP authinfo commands are used to authenticate to the remote host. (The CWauthinfo 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 CW$alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision CW$Revision: 1.7 $, dated CW$Date: 2002/02/03 19:05:22 $.

$Id: passwd.nntp.5,v 1.7 2002/02/03 19:05:22 vinocur Exp $

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