[CentOS] Problems with Microsoft Forefront proxy with yum

[Giles Coochey]

On 2012-02-09 15:35, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  How can I configure yum to download updates when I need to
> authenticate to a Microsoft Forefront proxy?? I have tried to
> configure http_proxy variable as a
> "http_proxy="http://DOMAIN\\user:passwd@proxy:port/", but it doesn't
> works ... I have tried to set http_user and http_passwd also without
> luck.
>

Not tried this myself, but:

/etc/yum.conf

proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>

Also, man yum.conf shows:

               proxy url to the proxy server that yum should use.

               proxy_username username to use for proxy

               proxy_password password for this proxy




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