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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 52714eadb..f90bdabf3 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -1535,16 +1535,23 @@ 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>" -Specify the user name 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 :". +.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. + +If you simply specify the user name, with or without the login options, 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 specfying 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). If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-U, --proxy-user <user:password>" |