Hi there, I wanted some help for this problem, simply wanted to pass any old password the user should happen to create in the Net::ftp login ("username", "userid") I tried the ENV construct out of desperation, I tried uri_escape. (Does it escape all possible entries?) What to do, any guidance appreciated Regards My test password was a doozy "Peleton@1" I tried: 1) Setting it as a litteral in the program, that works ie logs in but doesn't solve my problem 
do_ftp()
{
PASSW="Peleton\@1";export PASSW

/usr/bin/perl -e ' use warnings;
use Net::FTP;
use URI::Escape;



my $host = $ARGV[0];
my $userid = $ARGV[1];
#my $passw = $ENV{'PASSW'};
#my $passw = $ARGV[2];
my $passw = "Peleton@1";

print "Host:$host\n";
print "user:$userid\n";
print "passw:$passw\n";
my $string = $passw;
my $encode = uri_escape($string);
print "encode:$encode\n";

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Timeout=>10);
if (! $ftp) {
    print "connection failed!\n";
    exit 1;
} else {
    print "connected!\n";
}


if (! $ftp->login($userid, $encode)) {
    print "login failed!\n";
    exit 2;
} else {
    print "login succeeded!\n";
}


$ftp->close();
exit 0;' "ssssshostname.com"  "dcatbond" "Peleton\@1"
}

#  MAIN

do_ftp

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