add and remove program

[Ed Greshko]

arunbkn at aol.in wrote:

> One of my fedora client is behind the squid proxy server. That client 
> could not able to update the add and remove program. Can anyone help me 
> what to configure at squid / firewall, so that client could update the 
> softwares. Also tell me how secure it is to allow clients to update, is 
> that going to create hole in the security wall.

Are you saying your proxy requires authentication?

Have a look at "man yum.conf"  you will see....

proxy
proxy_username
proxy_password

directives.