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authorSergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>2017-01-06 02:44:51 +0700
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[README.md] Mention --config-location in configuration section (#11615)
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You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.
+You can also use `--config-location` if you want to use custom configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.
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### Authentication with `.netrc` file
You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: