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| author | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2014-08-15 22:04:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2014-08-16 10:46:57 +0100 |
| commit | 97f6049bc28d248a5a127fc6811f8f1dcd4ab2da (patch) | |
| tree | 5dc4e6916924ce3079fba9cea54fb4faf67cfadf /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | 29240cb5c116e3e8b5bff6c039b74524b85f8435 (diff) | |
CURLOPT_USERNAME.3: Added Kerberos V5 and NTLM domain information
This repeats what has already been documented in both the curl manpage
and CURLOPT_USERPWD documentation but is provided here for completeness
as someone may not especially read the latter when using libcurl.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERNAME.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERNAME.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERNAME.3 index 07892111d..4cec5e93c 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERNAME.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERNAME.3 @@ -37,6 +37,22 @@ user name to use for the transfer. authentication. You should not use this option together with the (older) \fICURLOPT_USERPWD(3)\fP option. +When using Kerberos V5 authentication with a Windows based server, you should +include the domain name in order for the server to successfully obtain a +Kerberos Ticket. If you don't then the initial part of the authentication +handshake may fail. + +When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name +without the domain name should the server be part of a single domain and +forest. + +To include the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User +Principal Name) formats. For example, EXAMPLE\user and user@example.com +respectively. + +Some HTTP servers (on Windows) support inclusion of the domain for Basic +authentication as well. + To specify the password and login options, along with the user name, use the \fICURLOPT_PASSWORD(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)\fP options. .SH DEFAULT |