From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:50:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention AUTHINFO GENERIC.
X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/utils/commitdiff_plain/0f90ca06d95776c98ddb0f7c7ea5a5b079c49449

Mention AUTHINFO GENERIC.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/utils@4862 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
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diff --git a/nntpid/nntpid.but b/nntpid/nntpid.but
index 760a350..f1d89ee 100644
--- a/nntpid/nntpid.but
+++ b/nntpid/nntpid.but
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ as a newsgroup name, and the second as an article number.
 \dd Verbose mode. In this mode, \cw{nntpid} will log its entire
 conversation with the news server on standard error.
 
+\U AUTHENTICATION
+
+Currently, the only form of authentication supported by \cw{nntpid}
+is \cw{AUTHINFO GENERIC}, using the environment variable
+\cw{NNTPAUTH}. It will only attempt this if it receives a 480
+response from the news server; if your news server never sends 480
+then \cw{nntpid} will never even look at \cw{NNTPAUTH}.
+
 \U LICENCE
 
 \cw{nntpid} is free software, distributed under the MIT licence.