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more rios ftp problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Tang)
Fri Aug 30 19:49:59 1991

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jeff Tang <jefft@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 19:50:26 EDT



The man page for ftp states:

You must also have a $HOME/.netrc file with the correct information in it
and the correct permissions set.  The .netrc file must be in your home
directory.



/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/jefft% ls -l ~/.netrc
-r--------   1 jefft    system       522 Aug 02 16:41 /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/jefft/.netrc
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/jefft% ftp prep.ai.mit.edu
Connected to prep.ai.mit.edu.
220 aeneas FTP server (Version 4.136 Mon Oct 31 23:18:38 EST 1988) ready.
Error - .netrc file not correct mode.
Remove password or correct mode.
221 Goodbye.
ftp>



What are the correct permissions?



The afs permissions were    jefft rlidwka


What can I possible do to use a .netrc file?




-Jeff

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