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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_USERNAME (3)

Name

CURLOPT_USERNAME - user name to use in authentication

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERNAME,
char *username);

Description

CURLOPT_USERNAME(3)        curl_easy_setopt options        CURLOPT_USERNAME(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_USERNAME - user name to use in authentication

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERNAME,
                                 char *username);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-termi-
       nated user name to use for the transfer.

       CURLOPT_USERNAME(3) sets the user name to be used in protocol authenti-
       cation.  You  should not use this option together with the (older) CUR-
       LOPT_USERPWD(3) option.

       When using Kerberos V5 authentication with a Windows based server,  you
       should  include the domain name in order for the server to successfully
       obtain a Kerberos Ticket. If you do not then the initial  part  of  the
       authentication handshake may fail.

       When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name
       without the domain name should the server be part of  a  single  domain
       and forest.

       To  include  the  domain  name  use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN
       (User Principal Name) formats. For example, EXAMPLE\user and user@exam-
       ple.com respectively.

       Some  HTTP  servers  (on  Windows)  support inclusion of the domain for
       Basic authentication as well.

       To specify the password and login options, along with  the  user  name,
       use the CURLOPT_PASSWORD(3) and CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) options.

       The  application  does not have to keep the string around after setting
       this option.

DEFAULT
       blank

PROTOCOLS
       Most

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");

         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, "clark");

         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.19.1

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is  supported,  CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION  if
       not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_USERPWD(3),   CURLOPT_PASSWORD(3),   CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3),  CUR-
       LOPT_PROXYAUTH(3)



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source      was      downloaded       from        https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 October 31, 2021            CURLOPT_USERNAME(3)