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- c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
- Long: netrc
- Short: n
- Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
- Category: curl
- Example: --netrc $URL
- Added: 4.6
- See-also: netrc-file config user
- Mutexed: netrc-file netrc-optional
- Multi: boolean
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- Makes curl scan the *.netrc* file in the user's home directory for login name
- and password. This is typically used for FTP on Unix. If used with HTTP, curl
- enables user authentication. See *netrc(5)* and *ftp(1)* for details on the
- file format. Curl does not complain if that file does not have the right
- permissions (it should be neither world- nor group-readable). The environment
- variable "HOME" is used to find the home directory.
- On Windows two filenames in the home directory are checked: *.netrc* and
- *_netrc*, preferring the former. Older versions on Windows checked for *_netrc*
- only.
- A quick and simple example of how to setup a *.netrc* to allow curl to FTP to
- the machine host.domain.com with user name 'myself' and password 'secret'
- could look similar to:
- machine host.domain.com
- login myself
- password secret
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