On 05/07 14:00, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Hi all,
> I saw in the wget manpage, that one shouldn't use the one-line format 
> which includes the username & password, aka user:password@netbsd.org.
> 
> (Because you can see them via "ps")
> 
> Instead, we should use the .wgetrc file, and put the name & password there.
> 
> However, I didn't find any documentation, how this file should look like.

A quick look at wget's info page shows that it will read your .netrc.
That file is documented in ftp's man page. Make sure you chmod 600 it.