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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-11-16 14:20:36 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-11-16 15:15:57 +0100
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+Long: netrc
+Short: n
+Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
+---
+Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) 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 will enable user authentication. See
+\fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not
+complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be
+either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to
+find the home directory.
+
+A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl
+to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
+\&'secret' should look similar to:
+
+.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"