Does anyone know why, in the Terminal, this, on OS X 10.8:

 

fmsadmin list files

 

Works, if when requested I enter my user / pass.

 

But this:

 

fmsadmin -u myusername -p mypassword list files

 

returns:

 

fmsadmin: permission denied

Error: 9 (Access denied)

 

??

The simple explanation would be that the username and pw you provide are not correct.  Or not correct as interpreted by the CLI

 

Do either contain spaces or other non-command line compatible characters?

 

as an aside: If it works without credentials why would you try and send credentials?

Ah.... non-command line compatible characters... that'll be it as my password contains lots of non alpha-numerics.

 

I'm needing to trigger a backup remotely so figured using the command line would be the only way.

 

Actually, I do believe I was inspired by another post where yourself mentioned that a FM client could run a "perform script on server" which in turn performed "send event". Nice one