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Re: NN Authentication Enhanced

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From: smw@mort.smwonline.ca (smw)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware, news.software.nn
Subject: Re: NN Authentication Enhanced
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:48:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Injection-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:48:03 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d7a396fc70ad753d573b1d6d258af7b8";
logging-data="29129"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vRhDKS4lPyG2YOLsprJ9J"
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by: smw - Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:48 UTC

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.

- Steven
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