[Alpine-info] newsserver password

[Carlos E. R.]

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El 2023-05-02 a las 15:42 +0200, Lucio Chiappetti escribió:


> Due to the failure of the AIOE newsserver I was using, I moved to another 

> news server which requires username and password.

>

> I tried touch .pine-passfile and now it offers to save the pwd on disk, but 

> requires the generation of a master password, and asks all the times

> Enter password of key <MasterPassword> to unlock password file

>

> De facto this replaces an annoyance with another annoyance. I mean, I always 

> have to give a pwd ... so just keep the original.


I suppose it is the same master password for email as for news. I just 
enter that master password, for email, just once.

I don't remember how I did it, though. It just works and keep working 
(form email, I don't use news on Alpine).


- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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