On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:26:35 -0600 [email protected] wrote: n> Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: >> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:52:13 -0600 [email protected] wrote:
>> What version of Emacs and Gnus? Do you have auth-source.el available? n> I have 3 systems. One, on which gnus DOES automatically login, is an n> ancient 450 PII runnng emacs 22.2.1 and gnus 5.11. The other two n> boxes are P4s running emacs 22.3.1 and 23.x.x, both also with gnus n> 5.11. The two P4s will not auto login, no mater what I try. I should n> indicate I have copied the P4s gnus files directly from the PII box. n> These include: .emacs, .authinfo, .newsrc, and .newsrd.eld. The .gnus n> and .gnus.el files from all 3 boxes exist, but all are empty. >> I'll assume you want this to work without setting nntp-authinfo-file. n> I seems to work on the PII box. The setting defaults to ~/.authinfo. n> On the P4 boxes...... what ho! No such variable exists. Could this n> be the culprit? n> I know how to chage the setting of a variable, but not how to initiate n> one. If this variable doesn't exist, how do I create it? (setq variable value) works either way. If, however, `C-h v auth-sources' doesn't show you something valid, you don't have auth-source.el loaded. Does (featurep 'auth-source) return t? It should be autoloaded when the auth-source-user-or-password function is called, which happens automatically in nntp.el and many other places *as of Emacs 23.1* and the Gnus version bundled in it. With Emacs 22.x and earlier, you need the CVS version of Gnus in order to have nntp.el and others autoload and use auth-source.el. The version of Gnus in Emacs 22.x or earlier will not use auth-source.el, Emacs bundled Gnus before that library came about IIRC. Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
