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The Question is:
A client that I am working for has some command procedures that FTP files
to/from remote servers. Right now they have the user id/password hard-coded
into their FTP statements. What I would like to do is separate
out the id/password from the ftp logic. I am new to Open VMS, but in UNIX
you can set up a file called .netrc and define the id/password there. Does
anything like this exist in Open VMS? We are using Open VMS version 6.2.
The Answer is :
There is no direct analog of the UNIX .netrc file on OpenVMS.
The OpenVMS TCP/IP Services package provides proxies for incoming
connections, and (depending on what you are up to) the support for
UCX$FTP_ANONYMOUS_ALIAS might also be of interest. (On TCP/IP
Services V5.0 and later, use TCPIP$FTP_ANONYMOUS_ALIAS.)
With OpenVMS V6.2 and later and a compliant TCP/IP package, you can
use the COPY/FTP, DIRECTORY/FTP and similar commands, and perform a
symbol substitution (based on the contents of a symbol or logical
name) as part of the FTP operation. For example:
$ targetsym = "node""user password"""
$ directory/ftp 'targetsym'::
$ define targetlnm "node""user password"""
$ directory/ftp 'f$trnlnm("targetlnm")'::
If you have a third-party TCP/IP package installed, please check the
documentation provided by the vendor.
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