* Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es> wrote: > Hello, > > I contracted a new hosting today and my user name has a '@' > in the middle. How can I -well, can I at all?- instruct mc to login > with such a name?
Your hoster is broken. '@' is not a valid character for usernames. > Since mc uses the @ to separate the login name from the machine > name it gets confused and it says it can't find the machine. The > login line ends being like this: > > /#ftp:f...@bar:passw...@ftp.box.es /dir That would totally break the current syntax, which is almost an URL. You probably could hack up the ftpfs code to handle urlencoded escaping ... > I haven't found anything in the mc inline help nor the man page, > sorry if this is such a trivial question but I can't figure out if I am > missing something or if mc has actually no way to handle this. Clear answer: there is no handling for invalid usernames ;-P cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc