IIRC, a second beta has been released which has a bugfix for the authinfo support. Cheers, -Brian On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 kadokev@msg.net wrote: > > I upgraded to 'nntpcache-2.4.0b1' for the Y2K fix, and instead of putting back > in my (poor) hack for authenticating to a remote server, I set it up to use the > new support for username and password in the server configuration file. > > I use supernews, and was getting errors when NNTPcache started stating: > > list.c:472: refused list overview.fmt on news.supernews.com.:'480 authentication required' > > I managed to work around this, perhaps nntpcache should use the hack I had in > my original authentication patch, where immediately after opening a connection > to the remote server, send a 'next' command and check for a 480 response, then > authenticate if needed. > > Kevin > >
