From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:33:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_37_1~160
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b65aeda52e9847fb05049472b16198bd5002ffc;p=curl

curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon
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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 :".