yum and network blues . . . a mighty help anyone ?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 11 15:50:40 UTC 2004


Thiers Botelho said:
> I'm having some problems with yum on my dual boot desktop behind a
> corporate firewall and proxy.
>
> In order to get proxy auth for yum I unsuccesfully tried each of the
> following (and probably some more combinations):
>
>
> =============export commands start========================
>
> export proxy_http="http://172.16.16.91:8002/"
>         *** with quotes and without proxy login + password ***

Do you normally need a username/password?

The variable you need to export is http_proxy, not proxy_http.

> export proxy_http=http://thiers:my_password_here@172.16.16.91:8002/
>         *** without quotes and with proxy login + password***
>
> export proxy_http="http://thiers:my_password_here@172.16.16.91:8002/"
>         *** with quotes and with proxy login + password ***

This is the correct syntax for basic auth, no quotes needed (but again,
the variable is http_proxy).

> export proxy_http=http://thiers@fertil:my_password_here@172.16.16.91:8002/
>         *** now explicitly appending domain name ***
>
> =============export commands end========================
>
> BTW, 1 - I can browse normally on Mozilla (after explicit proxy
> authentication request), although It doesn't open https site above
> (probably a certificate issue).

Is this using just username:thiers, password:my_password_here ?

-- 
William Hooper





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