From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 11:36:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14748 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shmooze.net (root@shmOOze.net [205.210.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14472 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markjr@shmooze.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by shmooze.net (8.8.7/8.8.3) id OAA00475; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:35:37 -0500 From: Stunt Pope Message-Id: <199803091935.OAA00475@shmooze.net> Subject: Re: news with lynx? To: sue2@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:35:37 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980310052945.45306@welearn.com.au> from "Sue Blake" at Mar 10, 98 05:29:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I've read news with lynx before, but now I'm trying to access a remote news > server with a given username and password. > > After plugging these details into many different guesses about what the URL > should look like (based on half understanding the spec) the best I can get > is the polite refusal "Authentication required". > > Can anyone tell me exactly how to do this? It's possible that the server > is down or no longer recognises my password, so guesses aren't much help. > > > try lynx -auth=id:pw news:new.server.com Mark Jeftovic aka: mark jeff or vic, stunt pope. markjr@shmOOze.net http://www.shmOOze.net/~markjr PWC's BOFH http://www.PrivateWorld.com IRC: L-bOMb Keep `em Guessing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message