[Yum] proxy authenticate

Michael Stenner mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Tue Apr 26 18:17:32 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:10:08PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:13:54PM -0300, Lasaro wrote:
> > >     How can i do for yum use a proxy authenticate?
> > 
> > Assuming a recent yum, put
> > 
> > proxy=http://user:pass@host.com
> > 
> > in the [main] section of yum.conf.
> 
> why not use:
> proxy_username
> proxy_password
> proxy
> 
> instead of cramming everything inside the proxy= statement?

Perhaps I'm mis-remembering.  I thought that was broken.  If it works,
I'm all for it ;)
					-Michael
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