Special Character Problem

Raymond C. Rodgers sinful622 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 15:10:39 UTC 2008


g wrote:
> 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???
>
>
>
True, and I'm fortunate that this works for the command-line ftp. Now, 
do you have any secrets for making this work with GNOME's "Connect to 
Server" system so I can have the server mounted as a drive on my desktop?

Thanks for your help,
Raymond




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