Eric S. Raymond writes: > As the original designer, I say -1. It's not clear to me or when > how entries of this kind have value. But I'm willing to be > convinced otherwise by a good argument. Looking at the netrc(5) manpage on my RedHat 7.3 box, I'd say it's clear that a machine entry without a login should specifically suppress autologin for that machine. For example, this .netrc file: machine ftp.example.com default login anonymous password fred@example.com should cause autologin on every machine except for ftp.example.com. If the ftp.example.com entry is simply dropped, the default could be used, and that would be wrong. So I think the entry should be retained, with a login value of None. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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