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

[Hiren Patel]

i used up2date --configure to set my proxy parameters, and they are
something like:

3.  enableProxy        Yes
4.  enableProxyAuth    Yes
11. httpProxy          myproxy:port
22. proxyPassword      mypassword
23. proxyUser          myproxyuser

works for me with an ISA proxy server.

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:03 +0200, Mertens, Bram wrote:
> 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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