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

[Mertens, Bram]

Thanks!

enableProxyAuth was the one I needed, if you configure the username and
password throught the GUI this is set automatically.

It works, but I'm a bit concerned about leaving my password in plain
text on the system like that.  I would prefer it if the applications
prompted you for it.

Thanks again for the help.

Bram

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-----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hiren Patel
> Sent: woensdag 27 juni 2007 9:51
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Using up2date behind a proxy that 
> requiresauthentication
> 
> 
> 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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