From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:19:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: -u addition: If you just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl X-Git-Tag: upstream/7.37.1~8293 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee52ae001cfc37017c9b969fcf5e990d899f7308;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcurl.git -u addition: If you just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl will prompt for a password. Denis Bredelet pointed out! --- diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 45dff0b..c45589a 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 :".