1*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker--- 2*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerc: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al. 3*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong: proxy-user 5*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerShort: U 6*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerArg: <user:password> 7*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHelp: Proxy user and password 8*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerCategory: proxy auth 9*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerAdded: 4.0 10*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMulti: single 11*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSee-also: 12*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - proxy-pass 13*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerExample: 14*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - --proxy-user smith:secret -x proxy $URL 15*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker--- 16*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 17*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# `--proxy-user` 18*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 19*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSpecify the username and password to use for proxy authentication. 20*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 21*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerIf you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM 22*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerauthentication then you can tell curl to select the username and password from 23*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workeryour environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :". 24*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 25*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerOn systems where it works, curl hides the given option argument from process 26*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlistings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly getting seen 27*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerby other users on the same system as they still are visible for a moment 28*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerbefore cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved from a file instead or 29*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workersimilar and never used in clear text in a command line. 30