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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:07:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Secure Newsreader
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980119080918.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117130818.5516F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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No wacky forms, just username and password.  KNews didn't like it when I tried
to read the news.  I get a "Failed to read active file!" error.  I'm using pine
for now, until I can get knews or something similar working!

Patrick


On 17-Jan-98 Doug White wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote:
>
>> Since I can't look anything up in the archives, I thought I would ask it
>here.
>> 
>> I need a newsreader to access a protected news feed.  I was using knews
>until
>> the server started requiring username and passwords.
>
>I remember knews dinging me for a username and password when I accessed a
>authenticated server here at the UO.
>
>Are they using some wacky form of authentication?  (Kerberos?)
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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