name: netrc-file internalName: netrcFile type: std::string defaultExpr: 'fmt("%s/%s", nixConfDir, "netrc")' defaultText: '/etc/nix/netrc'

If set to an absolute path to a netrc file, Lix will use the HTTP authentication credentials in this file when trying to download from a remote host through HTTP or HTTPS.

The netrc file consists of a list of accounts in the following format:

machine my-machine
login my-username
password my-password

For the exact syntax, see the curl documentation.

Note

This must be an absolute path, and ~ is not resolved. For example, ~/.netrc won't resolve to your home directory's .netrc.

Defaults to $NIX_CONF_DIR/netrc. The default shown below is only accurate when the value of NIX_CONF_DIR has not been overridden at build time or using the environment variable.