Subject: HELP!!

From: "Heather M. McMeekan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:43:41 -0500 (CDT)

Hello,

I have a weird problem.  For some reason, when I log into pine, it
requires me to enter my user name AND password...so, when I log onto
telnet, I must enter it twice...which gets to be a pain.

I have tried everything I know to fix it, and apparently nobody here knows
how to fix it for me.  Can you help?

Heather McMeekan

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length of it.  I want to have lived the width of it as well."
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From: Michael Thomas Cope <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:12:55 -0700 (PDT)

> telnet, I must enter it twice...which gets to be a pain.
Is this a new behavior?  If so I would be very suspicious that somebody
wants your password and has written a wrapper to ask for it.  Use the
command 

which pine

to find out what gets executed when you call pine.  If it's not
/usr/bin/pine or /usr/local/bin/pine or /bin/pine contact your system
administrator.

If this is not the case, look at your ~/.pinerc file 
more ~/.pinerc
and see if anything looks odd.

Even if it doesn't try moving .pinerc to something else temporarily 
mv ~/.pinerc ~/pinerc
and start pine.  Pine with create a default .pinerc

If this works without the password prompt, either configure Pine the way
you had it before or see what the difference between .pinerc and pinerc is

diff ~/.pinerc ~/pinerc 

identify the offending parameter, edit pinerc and move it back

mv ~/pinerc ~/.pinerc
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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96
E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: Daniel Sands <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:23:15 -0600

> wants your password and has written a wrapper to ask for it.  Use the

She is probably using an IMAP server, which requires authentication before she
can read her mail.  And I know of no way around this.

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:29:12 +0800

Heather,

> how to fix it for me.  Can you help?

I think you are saying your process is like this:

1.  telnet to a specific host.
2.  enter username & password.
3.  type pine (or choose it from a menu).
4.  enter username & password.

If this is the case, then your pine is probably configured to contact an
IMAP server on a different host than the one you connected to in step one.
Thus, the need for additional authentication.  First, for the telnet
session, second for the IMAP session.

If you confirm the scenario your administrators will have to configure the
IMAP host to use rimap, which is configured in a manner similar to rlogin.
I don't have the details at hand but can dig them up if need be.

Ed