Perl

Provide an FTP ACCT Account Identifier

Demonstrates the Account property, which supplies the value for the FTP ACCT command sent after USER/PASS when a server requests it.

Background: ACCT is a vestige of early FTP, where an account identifier could be required in addition to the username and password — think mainframe billing codes or storage-group selection. It is very rarely needed today; almost every modern server authenticates with USER and PASS alone. Set this only when connecting to a legacy host that explicitly asks for account information after login.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("myFtpLogin");

#  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
#  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$ftp->put_Password("myPassword");

#  Account supplies the value for the FTP ACCT command, sent after USER/PASS when a server
#  requests it.  This is very rarely needed today -- almost all modern servers use only USER and
#  PASS -- but some legacy hosts require an additional account identifier.
$ftp->put_Account("myAccountId");

$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Logged in (ACCT provided if the server requested it)." . "\r\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}