Special Character Problem

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Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> No, I haven't tried .netrc yet, mainly because I'm not familiar with 
> it.  I do seem to be able to login to other ftp sites where the 
> passwords are standard ASCII characters. I'll try .netrc later today.

think about this then,

example .netrc file:

   machine myworksite.com
   login raymond.r
   password letmein
   machine anotherftp.net
   login ray.c
   password open4me

edit .netrc with hex editor to change password to non ascii hex.
save file, change permissions to rw-------, and you are done.

to ftp login at myworksite.com

[ray at myhomesite ~]$ ftp myworksite.com
ftp>

what could be easier???



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