PASSWD.NNTP(5)            InterNetNews Documentation            PASSWD.NNTP(5)


NAME
       passwd.nntp - Passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers

DESCRIPTION
       The file pathetc/passwd.nntp contains host / name / password triplets
       for use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers.  This file
       is normally interpreted by "NNTPsendpassword()" in libinn(3).  Blank
       lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored.  All
       other lines should consist of three or four fields separated by colons:

           host:name:password
           host:name:password:style

       The first field is the name of a host, and is matched in a case-
       insensitive manner.  (No detailed matching, such as comparing IP
       addresses, is done.)

       The second field is a user name, and the third is a password.  If
       either the username or password is empty, then that portion of the
       authentication will not occur.  (For example, a server may require only
       a username, in which case the password is not necessary.  Note that a
       username is mandatory with AUTHINFO USER/PASS.)

       The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use.
       At present, the only recognized "authentication style" is "authinfo";
       this is also the default.  It means that AUTHINFO USER/PASS commands
       are used to authenticate to the remote host.  (These NNTP commands are
       described in RFC 4643.)

       For example:

           mit.edu:bbn:mypasswd
           uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo

       This file should not be world-readable.

       actsync, getlist, inews, innxbatch, innxmit, nnrpd, nntpget and rnews
       make use of passd.nntp when needing to connect to a remote server.

HISTORY
       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO
       inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn(3).

INN 2.7.1                         2022-07-10                    PASSWD.NNTP(5)