X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=759d2bb01f87448c7d9457ea988495b2d8888196;hb=4f3a25c2b413977bf0ea6f7bd16d3d20259470bb;hp=96cefb548b5dc54229cd42ed18e8da1e9719bc73;hpb=21a19aa94d7a650d90ab258bd277a8648378c135;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 96cefb548..759d2bb01 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for ### Authentication with `.netrc` file -You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a`.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only: +You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only: ``` touch $HOME/.netrc chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc