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Unix systems have for a long time offered a way for users to store their user name and password for remote FTP servers, in the form of the <code>.netrc</code> file. The <code>.netrc</code> file is typically stored in a user's home directory. Curl supports it. Format example:
Unix systems have for a long time offered a way for users to store their user name and password for remote FTP servers, in the form of the <code>.netrc</code> file. The <code>.netrc</code> file is typically stored in a user's home directory. Curl supports it. Format example:
<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>
machine example.com
login some-user
password some-password
</syntaxhighlight>
or


<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>
<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>

Revision as of 23:19, 17 May 2023

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Overview

Unix systems have for a long time offered a way for users to store their user name and password for remote FTP servers, in the form of the .netrc file. The .netrc file is typically stored in a user's home directory. Curl supports it. Format example:

machine example.com
login some-user
password some-password

or

machine example.com login some-user password some-password

To configure curl to use it, pass -n or --netrc on command line.

Python

The Python runtime picks it up.