1 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 2 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 3 Long: proxy-user 4 Short: U 5 Arg: <user:password> 6 Help: Proxy user and password 7 Category: proxy auth 8 Example: --proxy-user name:pwd -x proxy $URL 9 Added: 4.0 10 See-also: proxy-pass 11 Multi: single 12 --- 13 Specify the user name and password to use for proxy authentication. 14 15 If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM 16 authentication then you can tell curl to select the user name and password 17 from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :". 18 19 On systems where it works, curl hides the given option argument from process 20 listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly getting seen 21 by other users on the same system as they still are visible for a moment 22 before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved from a file instead or 23 similar and never used in clear text in a command line. 24