Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

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 == false)
    print ftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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

success = ftp.Disconnect()
if (success == false)
    print ftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end