Hi I'm trying to connect to ftp using nautilus. But it doesn't accept the password.
An example how I tried to connect:
nautilus ftp://username:[email protected]
sftp also doesn't work. It treats the username and password as username. In the example is asks for a password for user username:PASSWORD
Am I doing something wrong? I found the syntax here
Just store the password on the keyring. Then you won't be asked for a password again.
When prompted the first time, choose to store the password. You can't input the password to Nautilus from the command line.
A working alternative is gvfs-mount, which asks for the password on the terminal if not stored, instead of using a window.
gvfs-mount ftp://user@server && nautilus ftp://user@server
As the password is being read from the standard input, you can pass it from the command line like this:
gvfs-mount ftp://user@server <<< "passwordHere"
nautilus ftp://user@server
Please notice this is very insecure, since the password will be stored on your bash history file. I recommend disabling history before doing this, then reenable it.
HISTIGNORE="*"
gvfs-mount ftp://user@server <<< "passwordHere"
nautilus ftp://user@server &
unset HISTIGNORE
You can also finetune the HISTIGNORE expression, so it doesn't match any command starting with gvfs-mount and still keep other commands.
HISTIGNORE="gvfs-mount *"
gvfs-mount ftp://user@server <<< "passwordHere"
nautilus ftp://user@server &
You can write this a a one-liner also by using semicolons:
HISTIGNORE="gvfs-mount *"; gvfs-mount ftp://user@server <<< "passwordHere" ; nautilus ftp://user@server &
You can also avoid writing the URL twice by storing it on a variable:
CONNECT_TO="ftp://user@server" ; HISTIGNORE="gvfs-mount *"; gvfs-mount $CONNECT_TO <<< "passwordHere" ; nautilus $CONNECT_TO &
