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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-05-23 14:33:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-05-23 14:34:03 +0200 |
| commit | 3b65aeda52e9847fb05049472b16198bd5002ffc (patch) | |
| tree | ddfeea85580bc4b0133a977d45e9c0fffa3ba36d | |
| parent | 290d615b46bae5855c860b5a8f773089fdd804e5 (diff) | |
curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index a9ddcd7f5..e4beadb9e 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -1629,6 +1629,10 @@ Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password. +The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon, which makes it +impossible to use a colon in the user name with this option. The password can, +still. + If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and perform NTLM authentication, you can force curl to select the user name and password from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :". |