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authorSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-05-07 19:45:16 +0100
committerSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-05-07 19:47:22 +0100
commitfa083980c595dc150f369aa5d9d6e0161ceafa11 (patch)
tree59227c21a269e5861ba3974b0c68f7d33175a284
parent5f68fa48974f64286a7aba3f0fb80970745f993e (diff)
curl.1: Added missing --login-options option
...and removed ;OPTIONS from --user as that functionality was removed in 7.34.0.
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.128
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 1d9269b85..a9ddcd7f5 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -911,6 +911,16 @@ timeout increases in decimal precision. See also the \fI--connect-timeout\fP
option.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
+.IP "--login-options <options>"
+Specify the login options to use during server authentication.
+
+You can use the login options to specify protocol specific options that may
+be used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
+login options. For more information about the login options please see
+RFC 2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt (Added in
+7.34.0).
+
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--mail-auth <address>"
(SMTP) Specify a single address. This will be used to specify the
authentication address (identity) of a submitted message that is being relayed
@@ -1613,23 +1623,15 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--trace-time"
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
(Added in 7.14.0)
-.IP "-u, --user <user:password;options>"
-Specify the user name, password and optional login options to use for server
-authentication. Overrides \fI-n, --netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.
+.IP "-u, --user <user:password>"
+Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
+\fI-n, --netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.
-If you simply specify the user name, with or without the login options, curl
-will prompt for a password.
+If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password.
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
-simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :" or by specifying the
-login options on their own, for example "-u ;auth=NTLM".
-
-You can use the optional login options part to specify protocol specific
-options that may be used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and
-SMTP support login options as part of the user login information. For more
-information about the login options please see RFC 2384, RFC 5092 and IETF
-draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt (Added in 7.31.0).
+specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :".
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-U, --proxy-user <user:password>"