[rhn-users] Using up2date behind a proxy that requires authentication

[Mertens, Bram]

Hi

I would like to register a server with RHN but I am unable to get past
the proxy server.

According to https://rhn.redhat.com/help/faq/#61 setting "proxyUrl" and
"enableProxy" is all that is needed but I guess this doesn't take
authentication into account.

Next I configured my username and password according to
https://rhn.redhat.com/help/reference/s1-up2date-config.html 
but I still get the following error:
Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server
requires authorization to fulfill the request.
Access to the Web Proxy service is denied.  )

I get this error even after changing the protocol for serverUrl to http.

After setting the following values in ~/.elinks/elinks.conf I am able to
open  http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC but not
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC.  When I try to access the https
Url I get a "host not found" message.

# cat .elinks/elinks.conf
set protocol.http.proxy.host = "http://proxy.mle.mazdaeur.com:80"
set protocol.http.proxy.user = "mertensb"
set protocol.http.proxy.passwd = "xxxxx"

Setting protocol.https.proxy.host does not appear to be possible with
this version.  Setting the HTTPS_PROXY variable doesn't help either.

How am I supposed to configure up2date so I can access RHN through a
proxy with authentication?

And: How can I do this without writing a clear-text password in a plain
text file?

Thanks in advance.

Bram Mertens



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