Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

i have a doubt. i am using .netrc file for login to a ftp server.

Code:

ftp abc.ftp.com

suppose i have 2 userid and password for the same server as shown below. which one is it going to read from the .netrc file?

Code:

cat .netrc
machine abc.ftp.com login admin1 password pass1
machine abc.ftp.com login admin2 password pass2

Try:

Code:

ftp admin2@abc.ftp.com

Hope this helps

it gives unknown host error.

That's sftp I'm afraid. The only way I have got this to work is to have one of the following:-Neither is perfect, but if you cannot sftp then these might give you a viable option. In the first, there is the overhead of all the alias records and what happens when you migrate services to another server. You might need to have:-That way, if you replace the host, you move the first alias to point to the new hostname and all the other alias records will follow that.

Of course, with the other option you then have the concerns over multiple .netrc files and changing the value of $HOME which can have unexpected consequences depending on what you next do.



I hope that this helps, but let us know if you need more detail on the options.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

ftp reads the first line that the found in the your .netrc file.

Uh
I used to use .netrc for like 3 ftp servers at the 'same time'.
Meaning i acutaly had 4 entries for 3 servers, 1 been quoted out.
Maybe it was just an illusion that the files got uploaded and were to be seen on the website.

The only error i experienced with .netrc were when i deleted the password 'collum' of a line.

Syntax from manpage: sftp

Code:

sftp [user@]host[:dir[/]]

Just curious, why make a file (~/.netrc) that contains all required info on 1 line, if it can handle only 1 entry?
I thought it was ment like: you pass the host to [s]ftp, which will open ~/.netrc and read the line containing host, obviously, it 'should' check for any user parameter to be on the same line too, if there are multiple identical hosts.

Well, on Fedora it seems to work that way.

.netrc file is meant for ftp logins not for sftp logins i guess.