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Subject: Re: how to use ftp(1) in batch mode
From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
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On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 20:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > thank you. it works. actually even without netrc
> > > 
> > > (echo command1;echo command2)|ftp ftp://user:password@server/
> > You better not develop a habit typing passwords in command line or
> > URLs, this is quite insecure.
> > 
> > 
> why it is less secure as long as it is my account with 
> security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 set on server or even my own computer.
> 

My advice: Just ignore them. A certain type of person simply cannot
resist lecturing about security, even when they know absolutely nothing
about your application or context.

-- Ian