Hi,
 
there seems to be a bug in the ftp program. The "account VALUE" entry in
netrc
files is not actually used. This is a problem for certain types of
firewalls
which expect
 
USER remote_user firewall_user
PASS remote_passw
ACCT firewall_passw
 
Currently, the ftp program does not use the "account" field in the login
procedure but the user is always prompted for the "Account:" password. This
disables batch jobs using ftp.
 
The fix is attached.
 
Best regards
 
Henrik Seidel

diff -Naur netkit-ftp-0.16.orig/ftp/ftp.c netkit-ftp-0.16/ftp/ftp.c
--- netkit-ftp-0.16.orig/ftp/ftp.c      Mon Dec 13 20:33:20 1999
+++ netkit-ftp-0.16/ftp/ftp.c   Fri Sep  8 10:55:54 2000
@@ -253,8 +253,10 @@
        }
        if (n == CONTINUE) {
                aflag++;
-               /* fflush(stdout); */
-               zacct = getpass("Account:");
+               if (zacct == NULL) {
+                       /* fflush(stdout); */
+                       zacct = getpass("Account:");
+               }
                n = command("ACCT %s", zacct);
        }
        if (n != COMPLETE) {