[Yum] Using yum against password protected http repositories

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:59 -0500, Peter M. Abraham wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I'm trying to set up Yum to work with Progeny to automatically pull down 
> and install the correct updates.
> 
> Progeny has their updates behind a password protected area.
> 
> Is there a way to configure yum to utilize a user id and password to access 
> repositories on a Web server with password protection?  If so, how?

in your baseurl:

http://username:password@hostname/path/to/repo

-sv