From 3b65aeda52e9847fb05049472b16198bd5002ffc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:43 +0200 Subject: curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon --- docs/curl.1 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 :". -- cgit v1.2.3