[members-discuss] whois mntner

On 02/17/2012 04:33 PM, Marek Isalski wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2012, at 15:19, Richard Kojedzinszky wrote:
>> And as I am used to copy-paste the result, change what I like, and then 
>> send it back, this does not work anymore.
>> Any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> I noticed this while trying to do the same yesterday — seems you have to authenticate with the RIPE DB first — via the website.  Even specifying "-B" on the whois query you still get a "source: RIPE #Filtered" line.
> 
> Of course, how one authenticates with the website when it only supports MD5 password authentication... yes, this is interesting.

Hi,

Well, you can switch to the textarea-view, GPG-sign your update and
submit it there - no prior MD5-authentication required :-)
(And for doing that using Firefox the great FireGPG-extension comes in
handy.)


Kind regards,
 Stefan Neufeind