how to use a proxy that needs authentication?

ThorstenHirsch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

Hi.

I'm installing Gentoo within a company's network, that uses a proxy with user authentication for internet access. Therefore I've put a line with my proxy settings into /etc/profiles, but it doesn't work.
I've tried all of these lines:

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

is the proxy port 8080 or 80?.........in either case u have to specify it.......also if u type this in shell it'll work only for that session, so u might wanna add it to

ThorstenHirsch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

As I mentioned, I've put it in /etc/profile, as the gentoo handbook suggests.
Okay, meanwhile I've customized* the FETCHCOMMAND in /etc/make.conf for wget and now I'm able to download packages, so emerge is working well as long as I've a recent portage tree...and that's my next problem: only wget can use my proxy so far. An emerge-webrsync doesn't work either, it doesn't report any errors, but it's running only a few seconds and nothing happens.

*="... --proxy-user=username --proxy-passwd=password ...", and in /etc/profile the line export http_proxy="proxy.company.net:8080" is the right one; it looks like that the syntax with the username and password in /etc/profile isn't supported.

think4urs11 · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

set username/password for your proxy in /etc/wget/wgetrc

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imacomputa · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 18

Hi.

I do the same thing, and this is what I do:

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy.domain.suffix"

note that I prepend http:// to the proxy url.
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To · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

That's how I solved my problem at work too.

Tó

ThorstenHirsch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

Thx guys and especially to Think4UrS11. With the settings in wgetrc emerge-webrsync is now also working.

aerotux · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Argentina

if the mirrors are all ftp://... then it would also help to define ftp_proxy with the same string that http_proxy.

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RayDude · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

This worked for me too, thanks much!