[Yum] HTTP/FTP Authentication

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 08:37, Michael Stenner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:35:05PM +1000, Dan Goodes wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I just tried using Yum (okay, it's the default package manager that the 
> > Fedora crowd have available for RH 9.0.93 / SEVERN), but I ran into a 
> > problem. I'd like to know if it's possible to use username/password 
> > authentication with yum repositories. E.g. I tried using both 
> > 
> > http://username:password@host/path/to/yum/
> > 
> > and 
> > 
> > ftp://username:password@host/path/to/yum/
> > 
> > and both times yum spat the dummy and complained about a bad format. Is it 
> > possible to set this up? If not, do you think it's likely to be put into 
> > some future release?
> 
> Yes.  This has been on my list of things to do for a long time.  I am
> hereby committing to work on it this weekend.  If I don't, you may all
> harass me mercilessly (except for Seth, who appears to need no such
> permission).

I'll put in a "+1" for this feature to be added, hopefully following the
above format (which matches what apt uses).   I can't deploy yum widely
until it supports authentication.

--Jeremy

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