Bug 167419

Summary:	The authentication info is never sent to the server
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Johan Billing <jobilling>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	eternaleye, evan.teran, I027614, nive
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Johan Billing 2008-07-25 12:36:50 UTC

Version:           0.99.01 (using KDE 4.0.98)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I use a news server that requires authentication with login and password. I checked the "Server requires authentication" box in the Account Properties and entered my login and password. However, when I connected to the news server and downloaded the list of newsgroups, I only got an empty list.

I used Wireshark to monitor the connection between KNode and the news server, and it seems like the login and password are never sent. I then looked at the source code and it appears that the login and password are only sent when a nntp command fails because authentication is required. Unfortunately that is not sufficient in cases like the one I have just described.

The behaviour is a change from KNode in KDE3 which did not have this problem.

Comment 1 Alex Elsayed 2008-11-29 07:40:00 UTC

I can confirm this. This occurs with KDE 4.1.2 and cyrus-sasl 2.1.22-r2 for me, in Gentoo with the cflags "-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb2".

Comment 2 Alex Elsayed 2008-11-29 07:45:13 UTC

BTW, this appears to be a dupe of bug # 167718. There seem to be sufficient posts in the two together to confirm it as real. Also I forgot to add that I am using GCC 4.3.1 and that the news server was news.motzarella.org, although I experienced the same problem with an earlier revision of KNode 4 on Verizon's nntp service before it closed.

Comment 3 Olivier Trichet 2008-12-06 15:00:04 UTC

Does the server send an answer whose code is "480" ?
(If no, this is the same issue as bug#167718)

Comment 4 Evan Teran 2008-12-07 14:13:29 UTC

I can confirm that this is still an issue. (I would like to post to nntp.trolltech.com which requires registration). I confirmed by using wireshark, the authentication information is never sent at all.

In addition, attempting to initiate a post yields the following responce:
"440 Posting not allowed"

Comment 5 Antonio García 2008-12-15 17:34:25 UTC

This bug should be confirmed, and its severity should be higher than normal, as it prevents users from posting in many servers.

Comment 6 Olivier Trichet 2009-01-18 01:54:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167718 ***