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Article: 12908 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: dold@46.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: auto-ftp login
Date: 29 Oct 2001 20:05:43 GMT
Organization: Wintercreek Data
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Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
: 1.1.20 does support this. Simply execute the command
: FTP
: after connecting the the telnet host. This will start the Microsoft
: FTP client or any other ftp client you can configured using
: SET FTP ...
: However, Clarence you are not using 1.1.20. You are using the test
: build of 1.1.21 which has the built-in FTP client support.
That didn't seem to work very well:
[C:\K95\] K-95> ftp
?ftp what? "help ftp" for hints
[C:\K95\] K-95>
: Simple answer: You can't. Passwords in scripts cannot be encrypted.
: K95 process must be able to decode them before transmitting them to the
: host, they are hardly encrypted.
I don't know what other word to use... "obscured".
Whatever casual level of encryption is used to store the password in the
.ksc is fine for this usage. If it were more important, I wouldn't store
it using the Kermit Dialer.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@email.rahul.net
- Pope Valley (Napa County) CA.