make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> I see something I hadn't noticed here today.  ncftp can do what I
> wanted ... so its apparently a shortcoming of the standard ftp client.
>  (password obscured for posting)
>   ncftp ftp://reader:xxxxxxx@reader.local.net0:~/no_bak/fedraw
>
> does connect as expected.
>
> But `ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0:~/no_bak/fedraw
> used as baseurl in yum.conf fails:

Can one set what gets used as ftp client somehow?