Subject: nntp-server, Authentication required

From: "David A. Chrisman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:06:47 GMT

Hello,

  I have been trying to read news with pine. I have set the
nntp-server variable in my .pinerc. For example,

nntp-server=news.nowhere.com

  But when I try to open one of the news folders of a group I
have subscribed to I get the error message

"480 Authentication required for command"

  I have a user name and password for the host serving me news, but
I can't figure out how to tell pine what they are. I have successfully
done this with another news reader (slrn) by putting this information
in its configuration file.

  I hope someone can tell me how I can tell pine what are the user name
and password to use when contacting my mail server.

Thanks,

David

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|      David Chrisman         |   University of California, Riverside       |
|      [email-masked] |   CERN PPE / OPAL                           |
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:00:54 +0100 (BST)

Hi!

When asking a question it usually helps to give as much information as
possibly about the platform you are using Pine on (in particular whether
it is PC-Pine or the UNIX version), and which version it is that you are
using.

You didn't mention either of these, but from the message-id your Pine
generated when you sent your message...1

    Message-Id: <[email-masked]>

...I deduce it's the version 3.92 for Unix (some sort of HP system?).

Support for using news servers requiring authentication was introduced in
Pine 3.93.  So the solution to your problem is to upgrade to the current
version of Pine (3.96).  This will automatically prompt you to enter the
username and password for your news server when it is needed.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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