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macruzq

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Jan 29, 2009, 7:06:14 AM1/29/09
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Hi everybody,

Recently I logged into an FTP site with Konqueror and I need to log
into and provide username and password again. The program does not
ask. I understand that the password is stored and that is why
Konqueror does not ask for it.
How can I erase that password ? or how can I make the Konqueror ask
for it again?

Thanks,

Best regards.

Marco.

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Freedom is not a permission for chaos.

Pascal Hambourg

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Jan 29, 2009, 7:22:18 AM1/29/09
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Hello,

macruzq a écrit :


>
> Recently I logged into an FTP site with Konqueror and I need to log
> into and provide username and password again. The program does not
> ask. I understand that the password is stored and that is why
> Konqueror does not ask for it.
> How can I erase that password ? or how can I make the Konqueror ask
> for it again?

If you need to log in with a different username, you can try to put it
in the URL : ftp://username@server/

macruzq

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Jan 29, 2009, 9:25:54 AM1/29/09
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On Jan 29, 6:22 am, Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-s...@plouf.fr.eu.org>
wrote:

Thank you very much for your solution / Merci beaucoup de votre
solution.

Maxwell Lol

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Jan 30, 2009, 10:25:32 AM1/30/09
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macruzq <mac...@myway.com> writes:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Recently I logged into an FTP site with Konqueror and I need to log
> into and provide username and password again.

Short answer: if anonymous access is allowed, use

ftp://ftp@host/path

Long answer:
By a decade-long habit I usually I use
username: ftp (or anonymous)
password: x...@domainname.com

Some sites ask for an email address for a password. It's been years
where I was rejected if I didn't.

As Pascal says,you can put username and password in the URL
The actual syntax is
ftp://user:password@host:port/path
If you actually need to use an email as a password, that would be
ftp://ftp:x%40domain.com@host/path

where %40 = "@"

BTW - Firefox warns me that it might be a trick, because no
authentication is required....

Pascal Hambourg

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Jan 30, 2009, 11:07:41 AM1/30/09
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Maxwell Lol a écrit :

>
> As Pascal says,you can put username and password in the URL
> The actual syntax is
> ftp://user:password@host:port/path

Yes, but I don't like putting the password in the URL because I don't
like having it stored in the browser history or sent in referrers.
Usually if the server requires a password for the username, the browser
will ask for it.

Allodoxaphobia

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Jan 30, 2009, 12:01:49 PM1/30/09
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:07:41 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Maxwell Lol a ?rit :

>>
>> As Pascal says,you can put username and password in the URL
>> The actual syntax is
>> ftp://user:password@host:port/path
>
> Yes, but I don't like putting the password in the URL because I don't
> like having it stored in the browser history or sent in referrers.

ftp has "referrers"?

Pascal Hambourg

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Jan 30, 2009, 3:02:24 PM1/30/09
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Allodoxaphobia a écrit :

No, but a FTP site may contain HTML documents which the browser renders
when you click on them and which may contain HTTP links.

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