| lh | 9ed821d | 2023-04-07 01:36:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Long: netrc |
| 2 | Short: n |
| 3 | Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password |
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| 5 | Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's |
| 6 | home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on |
| 7 | Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See |
| 8 | \fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not |
| 9 | complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be |
| 10 | either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to |
| 11 | find the home directory. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl |
| 14 | to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password |
| 15 | \&'secret' should look similar to: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret" |