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1 Long: netrc
2 Short: n
3 Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
4 ---
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.
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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:
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17 .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"
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