Re: How connect Translator /hurd/ftpfs with a non anonimous ftp account with user and passwd

[Samuel Thibault]

Alexandre Garreau-Capitanio, le dim. 17 mars 2024 19:29:56 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 17/03/2024 18:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > SERVER can be a hostname, in which case anonymous ftp is used, or may
> > include a user and password like `USER:PASSWORD@HOST' (the `:PASSWORD'
> > part is optional).
> > 
> > So in theory you can pass user+password. But that will then show up in
> > ls, so you don't actually want this. Something would need to be added to
> > hostmux and/or ftpfs to support this in a safe way.
> 
> .authrc(.gpg) support?

If you are setting up an ftpfs mount for yourself, yes. But for
globally-visible mounts, you'd need to put somewhere an .authrc file for
the uid that you used to set the mount.

Samuel