curl/docs/cmdline-opts/netrc.md
Daniel Stenberg 2494b8dd51
docs/cmdline: change to .md for cmdline docs
- switch all invidual files documenting command line options into .md,
   as the documentation is now markdown-looking.

 - made the parser treat 4-space indents as quotes

 - switch to building the curl.1 manpage using the "mainpage.idx" file,
   which lists the files to include to generate it, instead of using the
   previous page-footer/headers. Also, those files are now also .md
   ones, using the same format. I gave them underscore prefixes to make
   them sort separately:
   _NAME.md, _SYNOPSIS.md, _DESCRIPTION.md, _URL.md, _GLOBBING.md,
   _VARIABLES.md, _OUTPUT.md, _PROTOCOLS.md, _PROGRESS.md, _VERSION.md,
   _OPTIONS.md, _FILES.md, _ENVIRONMENT.md, _PROXYPREFIX.md,
   _EXITCODES.md, _BUGS.md, _AUTHORS.md, _WWW.md, _SEEALSO.md

 - updated test cases accordingly

Closes #12751
2024-01-23 14:30:15 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: netrc
Short: n
Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
Category: curl
Added: 4.6
Mutexed: netrc-file netrc-optional
Multi: boolean
See-also:
- netrc-file
- config
- user
Example:
- --netrc $URL
---
# `--netrc`
Makes curl scan the *.netrc* 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
enables user authentication. See *netrc(5)* and *ftp(1)* for details on the
file format. Curl does not complain if that file does not have the right
permissions (it should be neither world- nor group-readable). The environment
variable "HOME" is used to find the home directory.
On Windows two filenames in the home directory are checked: *.netrc* and
*_netrc*, preferring the former. Older versions on Windows checked for *_netrc*
only.
A quick and 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'
could look similar to:
machine host.domain.com
login myself
password secret