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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!hevanet.com!usenet From: "Bradley M. Witkop" <webmaster@macnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: News Login Authentication through Netscape Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 05:03:15 -0700 Organization: Sterling Information Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3201EE83.3280@macnet.com> Reply-To: bwitkop@macnet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: st-ppp11.hevanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win95; I) Is there any way to news to force Netscape to ask for vallid passwd authentication for users who are coming accross the web from remote sites, rather than simply dialing into their accounts first? I know about the nnrp.access file. I can manually place a user name and text password into this, but that isn't a clean or safe way to handle the problem. I have seen some SUN systems authenticate for offsite requests by first displaying a dialog box in Netscape for User and/or Password input before continuing with the news read. Any ideas if this is possible with this language?