[Yum] Re: Usernames, Passwords and yum
Michael Stenner
mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Wed Jun 9 17:27:46 UTC 2004
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:23:35PM -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
> >It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not
> >the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if
> >they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see
> >the point of a user dealing with it.
> >
> >thoughts?
>
> I'm gonna jump in here - and I might be way off target (missed beginning
> of thread) but I can see a need for username/password authentication
> with yum ...
You are indeed off target :) username/password auth is currently
supported for http, https, and ftp via this mechanism:
baseurl=http://username:password@foo.com/direcory/
Read the thread in the archives (url in headers) for the details of
this discussion.
-Michael
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