Hey,

I want to make a wget cron job that sends an http request to a server each 15 minutes. However, this HTTP request requires a username and a password. So it would be something like this:

As all of you know, this would end up showing the username and password on ps.

I've been trying to find out a way on how to bypass this and I read about .wgetrc. My idea is to create a specific username on my box to use the .wgetrc file on his home directory, which will be obviously chmoded to 600, where I can put the username and password.

Now, my question is: when I use wget command, how do I say that I want it to read the user's .wgetrc file? If I had a username and password saved on a .wgetrc file, how would I tell to wget to read them from that file?

Thanks in advance,
Fill

Couldn't you just use a cron entry of

Where $wgetuser is the account containing your .wget file?

Depending on what environmental variables are involved, you might need to use the dash option with su to do a full login. (In that case, make sure /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile don't write anything to stdout or stderr.)

thanks for your answer. I did that and it is now working.