make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Harry Putnam]

Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> writes:

>> I'm a little gun shy now calling this a yum problem.  Do you see
>> further bumbling on my part?
>
> I will bet it is not a yum problem. The easiest way I have found to
> troubleshoot this type of problem is to use a web browser to connect to your
> repo. If that does not work neither will yum. OTOH if the web browser can
> browse the repodata directory then yum should work. It would appear you have
> some kind of permission problem.

I'm inclined to agree and using your test with http:
  (http://reader:xxxxx@reader.local.net0/home/reader/no_bak/fedraw)

I get a message saying `you are trying to access reader.local.net0
with uid reader, that does not require authentication.  Is this the
site you want?

Answering yes gets a 404

If I put a symlink to fedraw in /var/www/html then:
 http://reader.local.net0/fedraw

Works fine and hits my repo.

So it appears this problem occurs only with authenticating type urls.
And maybe even only when using ftp.

The fact that: http://reader.local.net0/fedraw as a base url works,
and yum does updates and installs etc from it should answer the other
question you posted running special command to create repos.

It is mirror of already created repo on carroll.cac