Re: Authentication failure

Yes, I do need a password as well as a username. I left that part 
out because it doesn't conatin any special charaters in it like the 
account name does.

I have other news readers setup & working using this account, so I 
know that the user:pass is valid.

I thought that the inclusion of the "@" or "."'s in the account name 
may be causing the authentication failure.



--- In [email protected], Gerard Lanois <gerardlanois@y...> wrote:
> 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 <mustang2pilot@y...> 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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