Problems using up2date through Microsoft ISA server

[Miskell, Craig]

> I have the needed proxy settings incorporated into the 
> up2date configuration and up2date works fine if the ISA 
> server is set to basic authentication, but when set to 
> integrated authentication it fails.
> 
> Example:
> 
> [root at penguin magoo]# up2date -p
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
> Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires 
> authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy 
> service is denied.  )
> [root at penguin magoo]#
> 
> Having  the County IS change it proxy server to basic 
> authentication is not an option. They temporarily did do as a 
> test and to allow me to update to 4.2, but some other 
> applications being used in the County had problems 'not' 
> running in integrated authentication mode.
> 
> Any ideas??
I guess up2date doesn't do NTLM authentication.  You could try something
like: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntlmaps/ - it's worked for me in
the past.

Craig Miskell
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