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I connect to a ftp server with vim and netrc. I don't have the password stored in .netrc because of security.

So when I connect to my server I have to enter the password, which is cooland it works. But if I change the directory, open a file etc. I have to re-enter my password after every action.

Is there a way to have it remember it after entering it once?

R. Ramon
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I think if you don’t use .netrc, that will work. It will prompt you for your login name as well as the password, though.

If you want to keep your .netrc for other purposes and just not use it in Vim, use

:let g:netrw_ignorenetrc = 1

A better solution, of course, would be to switch to some SSH-based access method. Then you can make use of the SSH agent to evade the whole issue entirely.

Aristotle Pagaltzis
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