[Mailman-Users] mail2news/authentication

[Jim Tittsler]

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 07:38:01PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to specify nnrp username/password stuff for the
> mail2news gateways here?

I did it the quick-and-dirty[*] way.  I just added the username and password to
the constructor in GatewayManager.py. 

--- GatewayManager.py~	Thu May 13 11:23:09 1999
+++ GatewayManager.py	Sat Jun 19 12:56:24 1999
@@ -202,3 +202,3 @@
                     msg.headers[n] = line[:i+1] + ' ' + line[i+1:]
-            con = nntplib.NNTP(self.nntp_host, 'myuser', 'mypass')
+            con = nntplib.NNTP(self.nntp_host)
             con.post(msg)

[*]I suppose in the general case, a web interface to this would be useful...
And it would need extending if you need to handle multiple names/passwords.

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo
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