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- From: eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: ftp script
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:46:29 -0800
- Organization: HAC
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <eraugust-1704960946290001@sbdsk0838.sbrc.hac.com>
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- In article <DpxxG9.263@solair1.inter.NL.net>, jwit00@solair1.inter.nl.net wrote:
-
- It has been my experience that ftp ALWAYS asks for a password. What you need
- to do is create an appropriate netrc file that has the user name and password
- already in this file. Also - note that usually - if the account has no pass-
- word, entry is impossible. That includes hitting return after getting the
- prompt for the password.
-
- > Hello,
- >
- > We haven a rexx script from which a ftp session is activated to another
- > system. It looks likes this :
- > user
- > put myfile
- > quit
- >
- > On the other system the account has no password or is empty. Still rexx
- is prompting for a password. So the script can't be executed from batch.
- > What we want is rexx preventing from asking for a password, by example
- if it is possible to add a ctrl enter after the user has been entered ??
- >
- > Thanks in advance...
-
- .trog--
-
- This is my opinion and not that of my employer and should therefore not be considered anything my employer would say or support.
-