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server address. The username and password might also be visible on the
network wire, open to capture by others.
To avoid these problems, use the Basic Auth property of the User Agent. This
property is on the User Agent Configuration settings at the Basic-Auth Policy tab.
Configure a policy that associates a set of URLs with a specific username and
password for Basic-Auth authentication. After the username and password are
set, it no longer needs to be provided in the FTP client address (for example:
ftp://myserver:port rather than ftp://user:password@myserver.port).
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