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# Steve Holme wrote on 2014-05-29 19:12:48 GMT:
> The following are possible options for new switches [...]
>
> --username
> --password
> --login-user
> --login-username
> --login-password

login is kinda redundant with user(name)?, my suggestion would be
--remote-user, --remote-pass(|word)

> a) Should we add the logic mentioned above to --user or have a separate
> option for the username?

as i wrote in https://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/1375/, i prefer
a new option that does not try to second-guess my intentions.

> c) What, if any, short arguments should we use? As -u, -U, -p and -P are
> already taken.

only -[WZ57890] remain unused, so i guess it's long options only.

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