[Oberon] Authentication for NNTP.

[Joerg]

As the server replied with 481, I assume the credentials you providied were not correct.

Did you send the command „USER PASS <password>“ as written, or did you edit the session log and replaced your real password with the string “<password>“?

br
Jörg

> Am 12.06.2023 um 04:29 schrieb peter at easthope.ca:
> 
> Aside from understanding how a stream is involved in base64 encoding, 
> authentication works for Oberon Mail in A2.
> 
> Therefore I'm emboldened to work on authentication for NNTP.  With 
> simple additions, the module reports this.
> 
> --- NNTP
> host = reader443.eternal-september.org
> user = PeterE
> RCV: 200 news.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.8.0 (20230418 snapshot) ready (posting ok)
> SND: CAPABILITIES
> RCV: 101 Capability list:
> RCV: VERSION 2
> RCV: IMPLEMENTATION INN 2.8.0 (20230418 snapshot)
> RCV: AUTHINFO USER SASL
> RCV: COMPRESS DEFLATE
> RCV: HDR
> RCV: LIST ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES COUNTS DISTRIB.PATS DISTRIBUTIONS HEADERS MODERATORS MOTD NEWSGROUPS OVERVIEW.FMT SUBSCRIPTIONS
> RCV: OVER
> RCV: POST
> RCV: READER
> RCV: SASL GSS-SPNEGO GSSAPI SCRAM-SHA-256 SCRAM-SHA-1 GS2-KRB5 GS2-IAKERB DIGEST-MD5 NTLM CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
> RCV: STARTTLS
> RCV: XPAT
> RCV: .
> SND: AUTHINFO USER  PeterE
> RCV: 381 Enter password
> SND: AUTHINFO PASS  <password>
> RCV: 481 Invalid credentials
> RCV: 480 Authentication required for command
> 480 Authentication required for command
> 
> The user and password allow interactive login in the browser. Fairly 
> sure they are correct.  Yet authentication fails. (?)
> 
> Why does the server show capability "AUTHINFO USER" and then refuse 
> authentication?
> 
> SASL authentication is required?
> 
> Thanks,             ... P.L.
> 
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