From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing authinfo Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 04:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: <878ts3ouhz.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <659DF21F-64D1-4588-AD43-CFC2032654DB@icloud.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480388865 25170 195.159.176.226 (29 Nov 2016 03:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:07:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Matthew Pritchard Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 29 04:07:41 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBYlh-0005rQ-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 04:07:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBYll-00075s-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBYlK-00075j-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBYlH-00069z-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:07:18 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp10.acens.net ([86.109.99.134]:18173 helo=smtp.movistar.es) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBYlH-000697-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:07:15 -0500 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0203.583CF099.0036, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Original-Received: from qcore (83.58.240.206) by smtp.movistar.es (8.6.122.03) (authenticated as 981711563$telefonica.net) id 57A52DD405BC7088; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:05:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: <659DF21F-64D1-4588-AD43-CFC2032654DB@icloud.com> (Matthew Pritchard's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:04:47 -0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 86.109.99.134 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111823 Archived-At: Matthew Pritchard 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.