with-authinfo-kludge.1: Explain that we don't configure the client.

[with-authinfo-kludge] / with-authinfo-kludge.1

diff --git a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 b/with-authinfo-kludge.1
index c8f1827..de0e417 100644 (file)
--- a/with-authinfo-kludge.1
+++ b/with-authinfo-kludge.1
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ If any are present, they take the place of any configuration file:
 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:
@@ -328,6 +328,14 @@ name from the section heading
 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
@@ -472,7 +480,7 @@ No configuration file could be found,
 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.
@@ -493,6 +501,10 @@ The runtime directory is chosen as follows.
 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
@@ -556,12 +568,13 @@ Let
 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
@@ -618,10 +631,6 @@ to share the same proxy machinery.
 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