Hello Perlmonks,

I suspect this is a trivial question, although I've not been able to find an answer so far.

Using Perl, I need to access some files that are on a different server to that of the script, although both are on our network. The files are in a password protected folder. (Don't worry, this is all legal, and eventually the bureaucracy here will tell me what that password is.)

My question is: using 'chdir' or 'opendir' how can I pass the password parameter. The only thing I can think of might be to use 'here doc' type syntax ie. <<. I have used this method in the past to pass a username and password for an ftp script.

Does anyone know if this is possible, or if there is a better method?

Many thanks
stewartski

In reply to accessing files in a password protected folder by stewartski

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