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Long: netrc
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Short: n
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Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
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Category: curl
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Makes curl scan the *.netrc* (*_netrc* on Windows) file in the user's home
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directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on
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Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
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*netrc(5)* *ftp(1)* for details on the file format. Curl will not
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complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be
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either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to
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find the home directory.
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A quick and very simple example of how to setup a *.netrc* to allow curl
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to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
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\&'secret' should look similar to:
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.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"
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