diff --git a/crates/rattler_networking/Cargo.toml b/crates/rattler_networking/Cargo.toml
index 5c85dfca2..d631719da 100644
--- a/crates/rattler_networking/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rattler_networking/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ itertools = "0.11.0"
 keyring = "2.0.5"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 libc = "0.2.148"
+netrc-rs = "0.1.2"
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.22", default-features = false }
 retry-policies = { version = "0.2.0", default-features = false }
diff --git a/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/mod.rs b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/mod.rs
index 2d509b202..a8617f8aa 100644
--- a/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/mod.rs
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 
 pub mod file;
 pub mod keyring;
+
+pub mod netrc;
diff --git a/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/netrc.rs b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/netrc.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ba39bd1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/backends/netrc.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+//! Read authentication credentials from `.netrc` files.
+
+use crate::{authentication_storage::StorageBackend, Authentication};
+use netrc_rs::{Machine, Netrc};
+use std::{collections::HashMap, env, io::ErrorKind, path::Path, path::PathBuf};
+
+/// A struct that implements storage and access of authentication
+/// information backed by a on-disk JSON file
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
+pub struct NetRcStorage {
+    /// The netrc file contents
+    machines: HashMap<String, Machine>,
+}
+
+/// An error that can occur when accessing the fallback storage
+#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
+pub enum NetRcStorageError {
+    /// An IO error occurred when accessing the fallback storage
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    IOError(#[from] std::io::Error),
+
+    /// An error occurred when parsing the netrc file
+    #[error("could not parse .netc file: {0}")]
+    ParseError(netrc_rs::Error),
+}
+
+impl NetRcStorage {
+    /// Create a new fallback storage by retrieving the netrc file from the user environment.  
+    /// This uses the same environment variable as curl and will read the file from $NETRC
+    /// falling back to `~/.netrc`.
+    ///
+    /// If reading the file fails or parsing the file fails, this will return an error. However,
+    /// if the file does not exist an empty storage will be returned.
+    ///
+    /// When an error is returned the path to the file that the was read from is returned as well.
+    pub fn from_env() -> Result<Self, (PathBuf, NetRcStorageError)> {
+        // Get the path to the netrc file
+        let path = match env::var("NETRC") {
+            Ok(val) => PathBuf::from(val),
+            Err(_) => match dirs::home_dir() {
+                Some(mut path) => {
+                    path.push(".netrc");
+                    path
+                }
+                None => PathBuf::from(".netrc"),
+            },
+        };
+
+        match Self::from_path(&path) {
+            Ok(storage) => Ok(storage),
+            Err(NetRcStorageError::IOError(err)) if err.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+                Ok(Self::default())
+            }
+            Err(err) => Err((path, err)),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Constructs a new [`NetRcStorage`] by reading the `.netrc` file at the given path. Returns
+    /// an error if reading from the file failed or if parsing the file failed.
+    pub fn from_path(path: &Path) -> Result<Self, NetRcStorageError> {
+        let content = std::fs::read_to_string(path)?;
+        let netrc = Netrc::parse(content, false).map_err(NetRcStorageError::ParseError)?;
+        let machines = netrc
+            .machines
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|m| (m.name.clone(), m))
+            .filter_map(|(name, value)| name.map(|n| (n, value)))
+            .collect();
+        Ok(Self { machines })
+    }
+
+    /// Retrieve the authentication information for the given host
+    pub fn get_password(&self, host: &str) -> Result<Option<String>, NetRcStorageError> {
+        match self.machines.get(host) {
+            Some(machine) => Ok(machine.password.clone()),
+            None => Ok(None),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl StorageBackend for NetRcStorage {
+    fn store(&self, _host: &str, _authentication: &Authentication) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        anyhow::bail!("NetRcStorage does not support storing credentials")
+    }
+
+    fn delete(&self, _host: &str) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        anyhow::bail!("NetRcStorage does not support deleting credentials")
+    }
+
+    fn get(&self, host: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Option<Authentication>> {
+        match self.get_password(host) {
+            Ok(Some(password)) => Ok(Some(Authentication::BasicHTTP {
+                username: host.to_string(),
+                password,
+            })),
+            Ok(None) => Ok(None),
+            Err(err) => Err(anyhow::Error::new(err)),
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/storage.rs b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/storage.rs
index c6c4d7f0d..c4c8d0147 100644
--- a/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/storage.rs
+++ b/crates/rattler_networking/src/authentication_storage/storage.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use url::Url;
 
 use super::{
     authentication::Authentication,
-    backends::{file::FileStorage, keyring::KeyringAuthenticationStorage},
+    backends::{file::FileStorage, keyring::KeyringAuthenticationStorage, netrc::NetRcStorage},
     StorageBackend,
 };
 
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ impl Default for AuthenticationStorage {
 
         storage.add_backend(Arc::from(KeyringAuthenticationStorage::default()));
         storage.add_backend(Arc::from(FileStorage::default()));
+        storage.add_backend(Arc::from(NetRcStorage::from_env().unwrap_or_else(
+            |(path, err)| {
+                tracing::warn!("error reading netrc file from {}: {}", path.display(), err);
+                NetRcStorage::default()
+            },
+        )));
 
         storage
     }