[yum-cvs] yum/docs yum.conf.5,1.38,1.39

Seth Vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Feb 10 05:19:44 UTC 2006


Update of /home/groups/yum/cvs/yum/docs
In directory login1.linux.duke.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv2168

Modified Files:
	yum.conf.5 
Log Message:
added patch to conf man page to mention basic auth from within
the baseurl

Thanks to  Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummmy.com>



Index: yum.conf.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/groups/yum/cvs/yum/docs/yum.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.38
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.38 -r1.39
--- yum.conf.5	3 Dec 2005 07:15:10 -0000	1.38
+++ yum.conf.5	10 Feb 2006 05:19:42 -0000	1.39
@@ -250,10 +250,14 @@
 .br
         url://server3/path/to/repository/
 .br
+
 If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you will find
 yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don't do this,
 you've been warned.
 
+You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server
+name in the baseurl line.  For example: "baseurl=http://user:passwd@example.com/".
+
 .IP \fBmirrorlist\fR
 Specifies a URL to a file containing a list of baseurls. This can be used
 instead of or with the \fBbaseurl\fR option. Substitution variables, described




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