--- random string <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: more apologies. I figured it out. The password had "special characters" in it which needed to be escaped.
have a good day. --randomstr. > Hello, > I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask > this > but I can't find anyone else having this issue, so a > plead for a bit of assistance. > > I am attempting to use lftp (great app thanks) to do > automated transfers. > > I am connecting to the recieving server through a > squid proxy always. > Everything works fine if I manually enter in all the > commands (open, user, etc). > > but when i try this command line: > lftp -u user,password ftp1.server.com > > the recieving server doesn't recieve the entire > password, which results in not authorizing the user. > I ran a sniffer trace and saw that the password is > being sent via Basic auth, and gives and > encryted(hashed?) string as the password. > in the successful trial, i get a particular scting. > in the failed trial, i get mostly the same string as > the successful trial, expect the last few characters > were replaced with an equal sign (=) > ex. > working: edfk87Ug96ghGyui5t8 > not working: edfk87Ug96ghGyu= > > does this make any sense? > > thank you for reading this. > > --randomstr. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
