FTP / .netrc question

[gonzilla]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to ftp into a server without typing my user name and password - but I don't think the admins want us to do it this way for security purposes. I'm not trying to go around them I just want to see how it could be done.

I have read about the .netrc and have been able to use it successfully to do this, but of course this allows anyone to see my password if they know where to look. I wrote a C program that creates and destroys the .netrc when doing ftp, but I just thought that seems like a pain and that there might be a better way.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

-Tyler -Tyler

 

[MikeLacey]

you can make your .netrc unreadable to anyone except yourself, look at the chmod command Mike
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