• Re: NN Authentication Enhanced

    From smw@smw@mort.smwonline.ca to alt.os.linux.slackware, news.software.nn on Sat Jan 8 20:48:03 2022
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nn

    In <RsidnW7iOaxirIPNnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@giganews.com> Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> writes:

    Well, for "potential" users like John F. Morse,

    ...and for existing real users. Yes, I'm one of them, and this is where
    I thank you for this and everything else you've done with nn.


    I have just pushed patches to my GitHub version of NN to support the
    forcing of NN to authenticate itself whether or not the server requires it >or not.

    I apologize for not thinking to share it at the time, but I did something similar with my local copy of nn in 2014.

    I'd just started using news.eternal-september.org as my news server,
    and discovered its habit of returning 200 even if no authentication
    is attempted, but in that case it grants access only to its private
    newsgroups.

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