Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Quick fix for ftp username parsing in tla

[Nikolai Weibull]

Matteo Settenvini wrote:

> I can't help thinking that ~/.netrc is the best way to go, though:
> easily parseable, allows to use any char you want in usernames and 
> passwords, and doesn't leave potentially sensible infos in .bash_history 
> or as tla commands output. What do you think?

There's already support for ~/.authinfo, which uses the same syntax as
~/.netrc (or a syntax very close to it).  I do believe that ~/.netrc
should also be looked for, as on my system, most commands use ~/.netrc,
but none use ~/.authinfo,
        nikolai

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