On 2003.09.16 11:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue 16 Sep 03, 11:21 AM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm noticing an apparent bug in NcFTP (3.1.3; Mar 27, 2002) > > This works: > > $ ftp ftp.server.com > Name: USERNAME > 331 User USERNAME okay, need password. > Password: PASSWORD > 230 Logged in > > And this works: > > $ ncftp ftp://USERNAME:@ftp.server.com > Logging in... > Password requested by ftp.server.com for user "USERNAME". > > User USERNASME okay, need password. > > Password: PASSWORD > > Logged in. > > > However, in SOME cases, the following does NOT work: > > $ ncftp ftp://USERNAME:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Logging in... > Could not open host ftp.server.com: username and/or password was not accepted > > > Whatintheheck!? This works for most of the other accounts I've tried > (I'm writing a script to pull stuff off of various FTP accounts, en masse; > specifically, my variation is: "ncftpget -R ftp://USER:[EMAIL PROTECTED]") > > > The shell is GNU bash 2.05b.0(1) > The FTP server is NcFTPd (can't tell which version). > > > Many of the passwords in question include "?", "!", "=" and/or "+" > characters. However, this doesn't seem to be an issue, since I don't > see any pattern where these characters DON'T work, versus when they DO. > > I'm quoting them in the shell, too: > > ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com > > > *boggle* > > > Besides changing the passwords to something that ncftpget CAN send > properly, is there anything else I can look into!?
sure. this is off the top of my head:
1. http://bugs.debian.org 2. http://www.ncftp.com 3. http://google.com 4. http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en 5. ncftp> debug1 ncftp> open (whatever) 6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com 7. ltrace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com
I see that it's been solved (I tried to send this message earlier only to find out that I hadn't updated my exim configuration to relay to the right host when I arrived in Davis)
Another thing to always check with shells is:
echo ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com
just to make sure that the shell is escaping the way you expected.
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