[tin-bugs] No login prompt with news.eternal-september.org usenet server with tin v2.6.4 in 64-bit Fedora?

[Urs Janßen]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:37:52AM -0700, Ant wrote:
> In my updated W10 Pro.'s PC's updated SeaMonkey's usenet reader, it asks
> to log in.  How come?  Is this a bug?  :(

No, news.eternal-september.org is open for reading _without_ auth (for
a limited set of groups) but requires auth for all other groups, thus
the newsreader does not know if you want to auth or not (as the server
doesn't tell the client that you have to).
SeaMonkey likely has a setting (which you enabled somehow) to always
authenticate. tin has the -A cmd.-line switch:

|    -A          Force authentication on initial connect. Only available when
|                reading via NNTP.