X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/with-authinfo-kludge/blobdiff_plain/e365c82ba636f9eb785b5d7ad101d9bbd170eb87..26f5de45d3fd512feec9a95181dbf6c0bced004e:/with-authinfo-kludge.1 diff --git a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 b/with-authinfo-kludge.1 index 117c474..5a67856 100644 --- a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 +++ b/with-authinfo-kludge.1 @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ program is an .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 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ 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widely supported by newsreaders +has never been especially widely implemented by newsreaders and now seems to be being withdrawn from those newsreaders which used to support it.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 @@ -234,9 +234,11 @@ is treated exactly the same as a configuration-file section .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 ` + ' @@ -328,6 +330,14 @@ 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 @@ -352,6 +362,7 @@ set up by the .B via parameter. The default is to use +.\" FIXME Fuck you openssh 127.1.0.1:119. It is .I not @@ -444,6 +455,7 @@ if no home directory was determined. 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 @@ -572,6 +584,8 @@ 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)