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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-12-14 11:19:56 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-12-14 11:19:56 +0000
commitee52ae001cfc37017c9b969fcf5e990d899f7308 (patch)
tree3a224b49dca973b5fbf5dc7ed335555041ea563a
parent26115aac5d1cea2ab08bdc706c6a8b1bcd0ea1f7 (diff)
-u addition: If you just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl
will prompt for a password. Denis Bredelet pointed out!
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.13
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 45dff0b83..c45589af8 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1153,6 +1153,9 @@ If this option is used several times, each occurrence will toggle it on/off.
Specify user and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
\fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.
+If you just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl will prompt for
+a password.
+
If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM authentication, you can
force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by
simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :".