1Long: netrc 2Short: n 3Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password 4--- 5Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's 6home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on 7Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See 8\fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not 9complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be 10either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to 11find the home directory. 12 13A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl 14to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password 15\&'secret' should look similar to: 16 17.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret" 18