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I have sort of this in my .netrc:

machine ftp.mydomain.com
        login mylogin 
        password mypassword

and while I can succesfully connect with ftp:

ftp ftp.mydomain.com

and passing credentials to ncftp:

ncftp -umylogin -pmypassword ftp.mydomain.com

I get this using only ncftp ftp.mydomain.com

NcFTP 3.2.4 (May 16, 2010) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
Connecting to xxx.xxx.0.140...                                                    
ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server (Debian) [::ffff:xxx.xxx.0.140]
Login incorrect.                                                                
Sleeping 20 seconds...

Any advice welcome...

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man ncftp states, that ncftp do not use .netrc file for storing preferences. See FILES section for details. Instead it use $HOME/.ncftp/ directory. Just connect to your server and use bookmark command for creating a record in $HOME/.ncftp/bookmarks file

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I relied on this doc I found online but it was wrong... However the bookmarks facility forces using at least once in interactive mode, not always what you want... Thanks – neurino Jan 30 at 17:55
This man is very old, I guess. I could not find any mentions about netrc in change log – dchirikov Jan 30 at 18:02

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