[Info-vax] test---ignore

[Brian Schenkenberger]

On 2023-02-20 18:22:54 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> Please respond via email, removing the obvious spam-block!
> 
> My news server aioe.org has died.  Many people have recommended
> eternal-september as a news server, so I signed up.  Works fine via
> telnet/port=119 (which is how I'm posting this).  I want to stick with
> NEWSRDR.  I discovered that it has had username/password authentication
> since 1993:
> 
> **      21-SEP-1993 V1.3    Madison     Add authentication support.
> [...]
> ***************
> **  Authentication stuff
> */
>     if (reply_code == NNTP__AUTHREQD) {
> 
> ***************
>         put_output("Authentication required for posting.");
> 
> 
>         strcpy(tmp, "AUTHINFO USER ");
>         get_cmd(tmp+14, sizeof(tmp)-14, "Username: ");
>         server_send(tmp);
>         server_get_reply(SRV__NOECHO, &reply_code, 0, 0, 0);
> 
>         if (reply_code == NNTP__PASSWREQD) {
>             strcpy(tmp, "AUTHINFO PASS ");
>             get_cmd_noecho(tmp+14, sizeof(tmp)-14, "Password: ");
>             server_send(tmp);
>             server_get_reply(SRV__NOECHO, &reply_code, 0, 0, 0);
>         }
> 
>         if (reply_code != NNTP__AUTHACCEPTED) {
>             lib$signal(NEWS__NOPOSTING, 0);
>             return NEWS__NOPOSTING;
>         }
> 
>         server_send("POST");
>         server_get_reply(SRV__NOECHO, &reply_code, 0, 0, 0);
> 
>     }
> 
>     if (reply_code != NNTP__SENDPARTICLE) {
>         lib$signal(NEWS__NOPOSTING, 0);
>         return NEWS__NOPOSTING;
>     }
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any way to authenticate interactively nor to
> tell it (via a logical name or whatever) to always authenticate.  The
> idea is that if the server requests it, then one will be prompted for
> username and password.  However, the server does allow unauthenticated
> access to a small number of newsgroups, so returns
> 
>    200 reader01.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.8.0
>    (20220715 snapshot) ready (posting ok)
> 
> which doesn't trigger the authentication.
> 
> The sources are available.  For a C programmer it's probably a matter of
> a few minutes to modify the code to always authenticate when connecting.
> Probably enough to copy the code above (without the "if" stuff) to
> somewhere else so that it is always executed immediately after
> connecting.
> 
> Any takers?

I've been absent here since AIOE went down.  I just got around to 
installing Unison on my MacBook Pro and this is the first message.  I 
hope it goes well.

I too would prefer to keep using NEWSRDR and I did find the same code 
you happened upon.  I will have to try to get that working with 
endless-september. In the interim, Unison on the MBP.