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I had tried that too. I gives me an error message: Cannot login Login incorrect.
I know the userid and password are correct....I've tested them directly. Just one doubt, the password contains some back slashes and $ sign. Can that be a problem? But, I am enclosing the password in quotes, so that should not be problem....??? My code is: 
use Net::FTP;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.server.com", Debug => 0) or die "Cannot c
+onnect to some.host.name: $@";
my $username = 'username';
my $password = 'pa\ss\wor$d$';
$ftp->login($username,$password) or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message
+;

$ftp->cwd("/files") or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->m
+essage;

$ftp->ls("/files") or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->quit;

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Re: Re: ...That's how perlmonks works [Re: Re: Re: trouble while ftping through Perl Script]
by Plankton (Vicar) on Apr 30, 2004 at 05:23 UTC
    Why not just apply some simple trouble shooting. Eliminate the password issue (if possible):
  • change the password for that user to something that doesn't have \'s or $'s in it long enough to test your script.
  • or try another user that does not have special charaters in the password.

    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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      :-( The problem is - I cannot change the password...and there is only one userid that I can use to connect to this server.
      There is one thing I noticed....
      From the command prompt, if I try to login through Method1, it allows me to login whereas if I try to login through Method2, it gives me the same error message - Login incorrect.
      Any idea why this happens?
      Method 1 (WORKING) 
      ftp -n
open ftp.servername.com
user username P\$a\$ss\$ 
>> 230 User username logged in.  Access restrictions apply.

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      Method 2 (NOT WORKING) 
      ftp -n 
open ftp.servername.com 
user username 
>> 331 Password required for username 
I enter the same password i.e. P\$a\$ss\$ 
I get the error message 
>> 530 Login incorrect. 
Login failed.

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        Hmmm ... it is probably just a typo in your post but I noticed that in your Perl script you used ... 
        my $password = 'pa\ss\wor$d$';

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        ... and in your last post you use the password ... 
        user username P\$a\$ss\$

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        Are you very sure you are using the correct password? Maybe you should look into using sftp with PKI so you won't have to use passwords.

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