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