Re: [CentOS] yum proxy username with @ character

Shawn K. O'Shea wrote:

I was really curious about this, so I googled around a bit. I don't know about the support in the environment variables, but from what I'm reading, the "%40" encoding should definitely work if you use the proxy variables in yum.conf, ie: proxy=http://proxyserver.somedomain.local:portnum/ proxy_username=username%40stuffafteratsymbol proxy_password=password

This should at a minimum be true for CentOS 4.5 since I cracked open the python on my box to see exactly what the proxy code was doing :)

Shawn, thank you very much, this really made the trick! And I can confirm that the above works fine on CentOS release 5 (Final)

Regards, David