The security implication of typing your password on the commandline should
make everyone shudder...
-Mark
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, William Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Eric Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > Hrmph. For some reason I can't get file access with:
> >
> > lynx -dump -auth=ID:PASSWD ftp://server/file
>
> The "auth" thing is really for password-protected HTTP pages.
> (It answers the username/password question that normally appears as a
> pop-up window in interactive, graphical browsers)
>
> Maybe try:
>
> lynx -dump ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/file
>
> If you leave out the ":password" before the "@server", it will prompt you
> interactively (probably not what you want in a non-interactive script :) )
>
> If you leave out the "username[:password]@" altogether, it will, of course,
> use "anonymous" as the username.
>
> For all the gorey details, see:
>
> http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2-8-4/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html#ftp
>
>
> -bill!
>
>
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Mark K. Kim
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