ftp, login name with a '@' in the middle

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj at terra.es> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I contracted a new hosting today and my user name has a '@'
> in the middle. How can I -well, can I at all?- instruct mc to login
> with such a name?

Your hoster is broken. '@' is not a valid character for usernames.

> Since mc uses the @ to separate the login name from the machine
> name it gets confused and it says it can't find the machine. The
> login line ends being like this:
> 
> /#ftp:foo at bar:password at ftp.box.es /dir

That would totally break the current syntax, which is almost an URL.

You probably could hack up the ftpfs code to handle urlencoded
escaping ...

> I haven't found anything in the mc inline help nor the man page,
> sorry if this is such a trivial question but I can't figure out if I am
> missing something or if mc has actually no way to handle this.

Clear answer: there is no handling for invalid usernames ;-P


cu
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