I added a small patch for getlist and actsync to connect to servers requiring
authentication before using 'LIST ACTIVE' or similar commands.

Patch appended.

-- 
Master of Desaster <root@joker.erwied.de>
Also known as Jochen Erwied <mack@joker.erwied.de>
 


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Only in inn-2.4.0.prerelease: Makefile.global
diff -ru2 inn-CURRENT-20010321/backends/actsync.c inn-2.4.0.prerelease/backends/actsync.c
--- inn-CURRENT-20010321/backends/actsync.c	Wed Mar 21 11:00:08 2001
+++ inn-2.4.0.prerelease/backends/actsync.c	Thu Mar 22 09:51:54 2001
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@
  *	      [host1] host2
  *
+ *      -A              use authentication to server
  *	-b hostid	ignore *.bork.bork.bork groups from:	  (def: -b 0)
  *			    0   from neither host
@@ -259,4 +260,5 @@
 int v_flag = 0;			/* default verbosity level */
 int z_flag = 4;			/* sleep z_flag sec per exec if -o x */
+int A_flag = 0;
 
 /* forward declarations */
@@ -356,6 +358,9 @@
     /* parse args */
     program = argv[0];
-    while ((i = getopt(argc,argv,"b:d:g:i:I:kl:mn:o:p:q:s:t:Tv:z:")) != EOF) {
+    while ((i = getopt(argc,argv,"Ab:d:g:i:I:kl:mn:o:p:q:s:t:Tv:z:")) != EOF) {
 	switch (i) {
+	case 'A':
+	    A_flag = 1;
+	    break;
 	case 'b':		/* -b {0|1|2|12|21} */
 	    switch (atoi(optarg)) {
@@ -682,5 +687,5 @@
 {
     (void) fprintf(stderr,
-      "usage: %s [-b hostid][-d hostid][-i ignore_file][-I hostid][-k]\n",
+      "usage: %s [-A][-b hostid][-d hostid][-i ignore_file][-I hostid][-k]\n",
 	  program);
     (void) fprintf(stderr,
@@ -691,4 +696,6 @@
 
     (void) fprintf(stderr,
+	"    -A\tuse authentication to server\n");
+    (void) fprintf(stderr,
 	"    -b hostid\tignore *.bork.bork.bork groups from:\t(def: -b 0)\n");
     (void) fprintf(stderr,
@@ -879,4 +886,11 @@
 	    exit(NOT_REACHED);
 	}
+
+        if(A_flag && NNTPsendpassword(rhost, FromServer, ToServer) < 0) {
+            (void) fprintf(stderr, "can't authenticate to server\n");
+            DISPOSE(rhost);
+            exit(NOT_REACHED);
+        }
+
 	DISPOSE(rhost);
 
diff -ru2 inn-CURRENT-20010321/frontends/getlist.c inn-2.4.0.prerelease/frontends/getlist.c
--- inn-CURRENT-20010321/frontends/getlist.c	Wed Mar 21 11:00:29 2001
+++ inn-2.4.0.prerelease/frontends/getlist.c	Thu Mar 22 09:50:10 2001
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@
 Usage(void)
 {
-    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: getlist [-p port] [-h host] [type [pat [groups]]\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: getlist [-p port] [-h host] [-A] [type [pat [groups]]\n");
     exit(1);
 }
@@ -41,4 +41,5 @@
     char	buff[512 + 1];
     int		port;
+    int		authinfo;
     int		i;
 
@@ -53,11 +54,15 @@
     types = NULL;
     port = NNTP_PORT;
+    authinfo = 0;
 
     /* Parse JCL. */
-    while ((i = getopt(ac, av, "h:p:")) != EOF)
+    while ((i = getopt(ac, av, "Ah:p:")) != EOF)
 	switch (i) {
 	default:
 	    Usage();
 	    /* NOTREACHED */
+	case 'A':
+	    authinfo = 1;
+	    break;
 	case 'h':
 	    host = optarg;
@@ -112,4 +117,8 @@
 		buff[0] ? buff : strerror(errno));
 	exit(1);
+    }
+    if(authinfo && NNTPsendpassword(host, FromServer, ToServer) < 0) {
+        (void)fprintf(stderr, "Can't authenticate to server\n");
+        exit(1);
     }