On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Clint Dilks clintd@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote:

Yum using proxy that requires authentication and a Password that contains the two characters / fails

normally I can get yum to work with a proxy that requires authentication when required by doing something like

http_proxy=http://<my username>:<my password>@<proxy server>:<proxy server port> export http_proxy

or by filling in the appropriate information in yum.conf.

But if the password contains the characters / this does not work. I have tried quoting the password in various ways none seem to work

eg

export http_proxy=/alid@proxy.example.com:80 export http_proxy='/alid@proxy.example.com:80' export http_proxy="/alid@proxy.example.com:80" export http_proxy=\/alid@proxy.example.com:80

Anyone have any ideas for a work around to this that doesn't involve changing the password or modifying the proxy config ?

I have tried reporting this as http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4123 but mantisbt presents the  information I submitted in a way I didn't expect.  If anyone can tell me how to modify the bug report to look the way I expected please let me know.

I've tried many, many variations of this. There is a "proxy_username" and "proxy_password" option (man yum.conf for the particulars) but nothing I tried worked. I am using a Windows proxy at my work (don't have any choice in that).

So far I've tried quoting using double and single quotes, escaping, escaping and quoting, using the password in an environment variable, etc.. None worked if the password contained any symbols. I now choose passwords with only alphanumeric characters to get around it.

Clint Dilks wrote:

export http_proxy=/alid@proxy.example.com:80 export http_proxy='/alid@proxy.example.com:80' export http_proxy="/alid@proxy.example.com:80" export http_proxy=\/alid@proxy.example.com:80

I think I'd try...

export http_proxy="\/alid@proxy.example.com:80"

which I didn't see in your examples.

but... I thought it was user:password@hostname, not password@hostname ??

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Clint Dilks clintd@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote:

export http_proxy=/alid@proxy.example.com:80 export http_proxy='/alid@proxy.example.com:80' export http_proxy="/alid@proxy.example.com:80" export http_proxy=\/alid@proxy.example.com:80

I have tried reporting this as http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4123 but mantisbt presents the  information I submitted in a way I didn't expect.  If anyone can tell me how to modify the bug report to look the way I expected please let me know.

Try submitting a text file containing the lines as an attachment.

Akemi