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.
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".
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.
Does the server send an answer whose code is "480" ? (If no, this is the same issue as bug#167718)
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"
This bug should be confirmed, and its severity should be higher than normal, as it prevents users from posting in many servers.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167718 ***