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* editing authinfo
@ 2016-11-29  1:04 Matthew Pritchard
  2016-11-29  3:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
  2016-11-29 18:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Pritchard @ 2016-11-29  1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hello I am trying to set up gnu with a password username usenet account I understand that I have to edit the authinfo file but do not know how to edit this file or were it is located. Any help would be appreciated.


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* Re: editing authinfo
  2016-11-29  1:04 editing authinfo Matthew Pritchard
@ 2016-11-29  3:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
  2016-11-29 18:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Óscar Fuentes @ 2016-11-29  3:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Pritchard; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> writes:

> Hello I am trying to set up gnu with a password username usenet
> account I understand that I have to edit the authinfo file but do not
> know how to edit this file or were it is located. Any help would be
> appreciated.

On the home directory of my GNU/Linux box there is an .authinfo file
with lines like this:

machine some.server.org login myusername password mypassword

Replace "some.server.org", "myusername" and "mypassword" with your
settings.



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* Re: editing authinfo
  2016-11-29  1:04 editing authinfo Matthew Pritchard
  2016-11-29  3:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
@ 2016-11-29 18:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2016-11-29 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Pritchard; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> writes:

> Hello I am trying to set up gnu with a password username usenet
> account I understand that I have to edit the authinfo file but do not
> know how to edit this file or were it is located. Any help would be
> appreciated.

Some info can be found with

  (info "(gnus) NNTP")


Michael.



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