Loging into News server via Telnet
Snapper
I'm trying to log into my news server via Telnet to get the overview.fmt info.
I telnet in, log in but not authenticated. I'm buggered if I can figure out the
correct syntax to properly log in.
The server is news.astraweb.com in case any of you guys have an account with it.
Below are the available commands:
100 Legal commands
article [MessageID|Number]
body [MessageID|Number]
date
head [MessageID|Number]
help
mode reader|stream
slave
quit
group newsgroup
last
next
list [active|active.times|newsgroups|extensions|distributions|distrib.pats|mod
erators|overview.fmt|subscriptions]
listgroup newsgroup
newgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
post
stat [MessageID|Number]
xgtitle [group_pattern]
xhdr header [range|MessageID]
xover [range]
xpat header range|MessageID pat
authinfo user Name|pass Password
Is it the "authoinfo" command? If so I cannot figure out how to run it
correctly.
Thanks.
Ralph Fox
Snapper wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to log into my news server via Telnet to get the overview.fmt info.
>
> I telnet in, log in but not authenticated. I'm buggered if I can figure out the
> correct syntax to properly log in.
|>>>YOU>>>| AUTHINFO USER snapper
|<SERVER<<| 381 More authentication needed
|>>>YOU>>>| AUTHINFO PASS lutjanidae1414213562
|<SERVER<<| 281 Authenticated and ready
This is it -- you first use
authinfo user Name
followed by
authinfo pass Password
>
> Is it the "authoinfo" command? If so I cannot figure out how to run it
> correctly.
Other ways to figure out how to run it
A. Here are the specs for authentication in NNTP. You could read these to
figure out how to run it.
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2980.txt section 3.1
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4643.txt
B. You could see how Agent does it.
1. In AGENT.INI, set VerboseLog=1
2. Open the log window: Tools -> Task Log
3. Go back to the Agent browser window and make Agent log on to the server.
4. Go back to the already-open log window and look for the commands which
Agent sent to the news server.
Note: If you open the log window _after_ logging on, you won't find it.
The log window only keeps a log while it is open.
> Thanks.
--
Cheers,
Ralph
Snapper
> authinfo
> user Yourusername
> pass Yourpassword
>
> If that doesn't work, try hitting enter after each entry.
Thanks. Will give that a try.
Snapper
> In alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified, (Snapper) wrote in <8gic549jii3bchf1j...@yarwho.com>::
>
> >Bill wrote...
> >
> >> authinfo
> >> user Yourusername
> >> pass Yourpassword
Just tried it. Check the results below:
200 news.astraweb.com NNRP Service Ready (posting ok).
authinfo
501 user Name|pass Password
user snapper (not my real username, of couse)
500 What?
user Name snapper
500 What?
user
500 What?
Doesn't look like it accepts it that way.
Doesn't matter. I'll email astraweb. See if they reply.
Snapper
> Do it the way Ralph told you. Each command on one line.
>
> authinfo user snapper
> authinfo pass password
Yep, got it to work. Thanks.
Here are the results:
281 Ok
list overview.fmt
215 Order of fields in overview database.
Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
References:
Bytes:
Lines:
Xref:full
Now, I forget exactly why I wanted this info, I so fixated on trying to log in
in the first place...