.I adverbial modifier
which runs another command
(typically a newsreader)
-in an environment in which at can,
+in an environment in which it can,
transparently to it,
make connections to certain NNTP servers
which usually require
authentication before they'll permit clients to read or post.
This is useful because support for
.B AUTHINFO GENERIC
-has never been especially widely supported by newsreaders
+has never been especially widely implemented by newsreaders
and now seems to be being withdrawn from those newsreaders
which used to support it.
.PP
an error is reported if a
.B \-f
option was passed.
-A server configuration starts with
+A server configuration starts with
an argument consisting of a server name prefixed by a
.RB ` + '
character:
.PP
See below for details about the configuration file.
.PP
-To hedge against the unlikely event that the desired
+To hedge against the
.IR command 's
-name actually begins with
+name containing an
+.RB ` = '
+or, less plausibly, beginning with
.RB ` + ',
an argument consisting of a
.RB ` + '
and may be equal to the
.I remote
address (below) without causing difficulty.
+Note that
+.B with-authinfo-kludge
+will not do anything to encourage the client
+to connect to the right address;
+its caller must arrange to configure the client correctly,
+e.g., by setting the
+.B NNTPSERVER
+environment variable appropriately.
.TP
.BI nntpauth= "parameter arguments\fR..."
Set the AUTHINFO GENERIC authentication parameter and arguments
.B via
parameter.
The default is to use
+.\" FIXME Fuck you openssh
127.1.0.1:119.
It is
.I not
Let
.I config-home
denote the configuration home directory so determined.
+.\" FIXME XDG_CONFIG_DIRS too now
.hP 5.
A `tag' is chosen, as follows.
If the
so a default configuration is constructed, as follows.
Let
.I nntp-server
-be the value of the
+be the value of the
.B NNTPSERVER
environment variable;
if it is not set, then a fatal error is reported.
If the
.B \-d
option is present, then its value is used.
+Otherwise, if the configuration file specifies
+a value for the global
+.B rundir
+parameter then that it used.
.hP 2.
If the environment variable
.B XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
be the local machine's hostname,
as reported by
.BR gethostname (2).
-If
+Then
.IB cache-home /with-authinfo-kludge. hostname
-does not exist,
+is used as the runtime directory.
+.PP
+If the directory chosen by the above procedure does not exist,
then it is created as a directory,
with mode 0700 (and modified by the umask).
-This directory is then used as the runtime directory.
(If it exists, but is not in fact a directory,
then later operations will fail.)
.PP
The runtime directory contains a number of other directories,
named
+.\" FIXME junk, new, naming
+.\" session dirs now entirely different
.IR tag . pid \fR.
Each such directory corresponds to a running
(or failed)
This is somewhat wasteful.
Fixing this would necessitate some other way of
orchestrating the setup and teardown of runtime directories.
-.PP
-Maybe there ought to be a way to set
-a separate runtime directory for each server.
-But, really, I had to draw a line somewhere.
.
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.SH SEE ALSO