curl/docs/cmdline-opts/netrc.d
Daniel Stenberg d7f737dd13
docs: make gen.pl support *italic* and **bold**
Remove some nroffisms from the cmdline doc files to simplify editing,
and instead support this markdown style.

Closes #6771
2021-03-22 16:50:58 +01:00

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Makefile

Long: netrc
Short: n
Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
Category: curl
---
Makes curl scan the *.netrc* (*_netrc* 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
*netrc(5)* *ftp(1)* 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 *.netrc* 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"