On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 22:41 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: > Hi > I installed FC4 and tried to configure yum to work. I am behind a > proxy server which requires authentication. > My /etc/yum.conf file is > > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=0 > > # The proxy server - proxy server:port number > proxy=http://vsnlproxy.iitk.ac.in:3128/ > # The account details for yum connections > proxy_username=spsingh > proxy_password=password > > I had a password with % in it. When trying yum update I got HTTP Error > 407 ie proxy authentication required. When i tried to search for the > problem on net, I came across this > http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000781.html > which shows that the guy had problem connecting because of special > character which yum could not understand/encrypt. > I did the same.Changed my password so that it had alphanumeric only > and yum worked!!!!! > Wget, apt (on ubuntu5.10 and FC4) used to work with old password. > Is this a problem with yum. Can someone please test it out!! Also can > I submit it as bug? > Not a problem but a design of the program. % is a special character to the shell and it must be escaped so it is passed literally or not used in most of these circumstances. > I had same problem while installing gentoo previous month. it did not > emerge and finally I gave up the installation. Can someone please test > this and let me know. i will appreciate it. My email id is > sumeetpalsingh@xxxxxxxxx > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
