[NNTP] Spaces in usernames and passwords

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
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>>I'm fine with this as well.  I'll also propose this as a possible
>>simpler and less-wordy alternative:
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>>username = 1*(user-pass-char)
>>password = 1*(user-pass-char)
>>user-pass-char = P-CHAR
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>>Note: A server implementation MAY parse AUTHINFO USER and AUTHINFO PASS
>>specially as to allow white space to be used within the username or
>>password.  Such implementations typically treat everything between the
>>first whitespace character following "USER"/"PASS" and EOL as the
>>username/password.  In this case, "user-pass-char" is extended as such:
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>>user-pass-char =/ SP / TAB
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> This also works for me.  I think we still want the 2.1.2 change.

Yes, those changes are already in the source.

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