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1.1     ! misho       1: Long: user
        !             2: Short: u
        !             3: Arg: <user:password>
        !             4: Help: Server user and password
        !             5: ---
        !             6: Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
        !             7: --netrc and --netrc-optional.
        !             8: 
        !             9: If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password.
        !            10: 
        !            11: The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon, which makes it
        !            12: impossible to use a colon in the user name with this option. The password can,
        !            13: still.
        !            14: 
        !            15: On systems where it works, curl will hide the given option argument from
        !            16: process listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly
        !            17: getting seen by other users on the same system as they will still be visible
        !            18: for a brief moment before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved
        !            19: from a file instead or similar and never used in clear text in a command line.
        !            20: 
        !            21: When using Kerberos V5 with a Windows based server you should include the
        !            22: Windows domain name in the user name, in order for the server to successfully
        !            23: obtain a Kerberos Ticket. If you don't then the initial authentication
        !            24: handshake may fail.
        !            25: 
        !            26: When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name,
        !            27: without the domain, if there is a single domain and forest in your setup
        !            28: for example.
        !            29: 
        !            30: To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User
        !            31: Principal Name) formats. For example, EXAMPLE\\user and user@example.com
        !            32: respectively.
        !            33: 
        !            34: If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and perform Kerberos V5,
        !            35: Negotiate, NTLM or Digest authentication then you can tell curl to select
        !            36: the user name and password from your environment by specifying a single colon
        !            37: with this option: "-u :".
        !            38: 
        !            39: If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.