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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:08:15 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, carolus!

>> You didn't supplied a username to the remote host at all.
>> Quite predictable, you got a name mismatch...

> Thanks.  That was the clue.  The following all work, connecting to my 
> cygwin home directory on the server:

> ssh dell03
> sftp dell03
> lftp sftp://dell03

> but curl requires a more explicit syntax: curl sftp://cdr AT dell03

> I had tried curl -u cdr, but that asks for a password.  Since I want to 
> use curl in a script, I did not want to have to enter a password.
> I did not think of trying a different syntax until reading your suggestion.

Many tools take your $USER as login name to remote host by default.
Which is a rather wild guess, in general, but often works... locally.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 10.11.2011, <05:06>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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