Re: Authentication failure

Put ubh aside for the moment.

Can you telnet into port 119 of the news server?

If so, you can manually speak to the server to determine
whether your username and password are valid.

For example, your news server is news.newserver.com,
your account is "catherine" and your passord is "wheel".

When you telnet into port 119 of news.newserver.com, your
conversation will go like this:

200 news.newserver.com
AUTHINFO USER catherine           <<<<==== You type this
381 more authentication required
AUTHINFO PASS wheel               <<<<==== You type this
281 news.newserver.com
QUIT                              <<<<==== You type this


If you can't do this with your server, then your user
name and/or password are not valid.

Maybe you need a password in addition to your account name?

-Gerard


--- Steve Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using v2.5 & am receiving a "ERROR: Net::NNTP->authinfo() 
> failed: 502 - Authentication Failed" message. My news provider 
> (BellSouth) requires that the ACCOUNT = <user>@bellsouth.net. Could 
> this be causing the problem?
> 
> Thx...
> 
> 
> 



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