make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[david walcroft]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> writes:
> 
> 
>>[updates-ftp]
>>name=Fedora 2 planetmirror ftp Updates
>>baseurl=ftp://user:passwd@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/2/i386
> 
> 
> You probably hadn't seen my post yet detailing why that sort of
> address scheme doesn't work inside my [unresolvable via dns] lan.
> 
> ftp apparently uses dns to find the host when address is of the
> `ftp://' type.  So for me.
>   ftp my.local.host
> works but
>   ftp://ftp.my.local.host
> does not.
> 
> Apparently the former searches no further than my /etc/hosts file
> and the later uses a dns lookup on line.
> 
> So I'll need some kind of scheme to get the uid and passwd passed into
> the baseurl.
>  
> any guesses? 
> 
> 
oops :-] should have kept my mouth shut.

   david