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

[Alexandre Garreau-Capitanio]

On 17/03/2024 18:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> See /hurd/ftpfs --help:
>
> 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? it's the most standard i can think of, and hence 
by impementing so it may already support a bunch of hosts out of the box

the .gpg version is already used by emacs