On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:21:42AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: trn4
> Version: 4.0-test76-15
>
> trn4 has some kind of support for AUTHINFO GENERIC but it doesn't
> implement the protocol as described in the original specification:
> http://ftp.nada.kth.se/pub/home/assar/nntp-hacks/GENERIC.FAQ
>
> Specifically, it requires the authentication command and arguments to
> be configured in ~/.trn/access rather than getting it from the
> NNTPAUTH variable. This means that trn4 needs configuring separately
> from other newsreaders. It's particularly inconvenient in the case
> where the authentication setup (the NNTPAUTH value) varies (for
> example, between different users on the same system).
Thanks for your report. I believe this patch will fix it (it at least
permits reading news on chiark, although I haven't tested posting). I'll
also upload this to unstable shortly, and it appears that the
dependencies should permit installing the .deb directly on chiark
without drama.
Index: datasrc.c
===================================================================
--- datasrc.c (revision 3126)
+++ datasrc.c (revision 3127)
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
vals[DI_NNTP_SERVER] = machine;
vals[DI_AUTH_USER] = read_auth_file(nntp_auth_file,
&vals[DI_AUTH_PASS]);
+#ifdef USE_GENAUTH
+ vals[DI_AUTH_COMMAND] = getenv("NNTPAUTH");
+#endif
vals[DI_FORCE_AUTH] = getenv("NNTP_FORCE_AUTH");
new_datasrc("default",vals);
}
@@ -86,6 +89,9 @@
if (machine) {
vals[DI_AUTH_USER] = read_auth_file(nntp_auth_file,
&vals[DI_AUTH_PASS]);
+#ifdef USE_GENAUTH
+ vals[DI_AUTH_COMMAND] = getenv("NNTPAUTH");
+#endif
vals[DI_FORCE_AUTH] = getenv("NNTP_FORCE_AUTH");
}
#endif
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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