[rhn-users] Using up2date behind a proxy that requiresauthentication

[Mansour, Michael]

Hi Bram,

The error you've defined here:

Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to
fulfill the request.
Access to the Web Proxy service is denied.  )

is not an error generated by anything Red Hat, it's referring to the
Microsoft Internet and Acceleration Server (ISA) which is what your site
seems to be using for it's access to the internet.

My suggestion would be to raise a case with your admins at your work and
ask them why your account cannot be authenticated on their proxy server.

Regards,

Michael. 

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Mertens, Bram
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:04 AM
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Using up2date behind a proxy that
requiresauthentication

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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