[ietf-nntp] Re: AUTHINFO/SASL responses

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> 481 would indicate a temporary failure with authentication, implying
>> that the client should try the same username and password again.  Is
>> that what you mean?  Under what circumstances would one use that?

> If the user typed his/her password incorrectly.

That's a permanent failure.  Any retry with that same password is just
going to fail again.  The user will have to authenticate using different
credentials (the correct password) to be successful.

> If the server didn't have the mechanism-specific credentials for the
> user.

Wouldn't that normally be a permanent failure as well (at least for that
session)?

> OK, I'm going to stick with what we currently have:

> 281 -> success with no data
> 283 <base64> -> success with data

Sounds good to me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>