X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/with-authinfo-kludge/blobdiff_plain/afaf8da0cce4fc6ca78a7f7dcfb7162ed8a17155..838ff5e925d1f50ea0dd1895d1345894bb0eca71:/with-authinfo-kludge.1 diff --git a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 b/with-authinfo-kludge.1 index 070148a..de0e417 100644 --- a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 +++ b/with-authinfo-kludge.1 @@ -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 @@ -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