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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: ftp-alternative-to-user Arg: Help: String to replace USER [name] Protocols: FTP Added: 7.15.5 Category: ftp Multi: single See-also:

• ftp-account
• user Example:
• --ftp-alternative-to-user “U53r” ftp://example.com

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--ftp-alternative-to-user

If authenticating with the USER and PASS commands fails, send this command. When connecting to Tumbleweed's Secure Transport server over FTPS using a client certificate, using “SITE AUTH” tells the server to retrieve the username from the certificate.