[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Nov 5 17:23:52 PST 2004


Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:

> If it's just the AUTHINFO userid, why can't it be passed as part of the
> invocation to the MODE READER server via environment variable or argv?

Privacy layers negotiated by AUTHINFO SASL.  You're right that if it's
just an AUTHINFO USER case, it's solvable, but it doesn't work with the
more general case going forward.

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



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