| c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. |
| SPDX-License-Identifier: curl |
| Long: proxy-user |
| Short: U |
| Arg: <user:password> |
| Help: Proxy user and password |
| Category: proxy auth |
| Example: --proxy-user name:pwd -x proxy $URL |
| Added: 4.0 |
| See-also: proxy-pass |
| Multi: single |
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| Specify the user name and password to use for proxy authentication. |
| |
| If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM |
| authentication then you can tell curl to select the user name and password |
| from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :". |
| |
| On systems where it works, curl hides the given option argument from process |
| listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly getting seen |
| by other users on the same system as they still are visible for a moment |
| before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved from a file instead or |
| similar and never used in clear text in a command line. |