profiles: mpv: remove mkfile ~/.netrc #6735
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To reduce clutter in the user home. This file is apparently intended to specify login information for remote systems, such as username and password for ftp/http connections (similarly to using ~/.ssh/config for ssh connections). From inetutils.info of GNU inetutils 2.6, which provides ftp and telnet binaries (among others): > 11.7 The ‘.netrc’ file > The ‘.netrc’ file contains login and initialization information used > by the auto-login process. It generally resides in the user's home > directory, but a location outside of the home directory can be set > using the environment variable ‘NETRC’. Both locations are overridden > by the command line option ‘-N’. The selected file must be a regular > file, or access will be denied. It seems that the file is intended to be created manually (just like ~/.ssh/config), as it is not mentioned in mpv(1). mpv supports using yt-dlp and ~/.netrc is mentined in yt-dlp(1), though it does not look like it would create the file either. Note also that this entry is not present in any other profile (including the ones that allow ~/.netrc). Related commits: * 5d74179 ("Use whitelisting for video players (netblue30#3472)", 2020-08-15) * 8bf892d ("Fix missing mkfile in 5d74179", 2020-08-16) This is a follow-up to netblue30#6732.
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From curl(1): > -n, --netrc > Make curl scan the .netrc file in the user's home directory for > login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on > Unix. If used with HTTP, curl enables user authentication. See > netrc(5) and ftp(1) for details on the file format. curl does > not complain if that file does not have the right permissions > (it should be neither world- nor group-readable). The > environment variable "HOME" is used to find the home directory. Environment: curl 8.13.0-2 on Artix Linux. This is a follow-up to netblue30#6735.
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From curl(1): > -n, --netrc > Make curl scan the .netrc file in the user's home directory for > login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on > Unix. If used with HTTP, curl enables user authentication. See > netrc(5) and ftp(1) for details on the file format. curl does > not complain if that file does not have the right permissions > (it should be neither world- nor group-readable). The > environment variable "HOME" is used to find the home directory. Environment: curl 8.13.0-2 on Artix Linux. This is a follow-up to #6735.
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To reduce clutter in the user home.
This file is apparently intended to specify login information for remote
systems, such as username and password for ftp/http connections
(similarly to using ~/.ssh/config for ssh connections).
From inetutils.info of GNU inetutils 2.6, which provides ftp and telnet
binaries (among others):
It seems that the file is intended to be created manually (just like
~/.ssh/config), as it is not mentioned in mpv(1). mpv supports using
yt-dlp and ~/.netrc is mentined in yt-dlp(1), though it does not look
like it would create the file either.
Note also that this entry is not present in any other profile (including
the ones that allow ~/.netrc).
Related commits:
5d74179", 2020-08-16)
This is a follow-up to #6732.