On 16 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: <snip> > you can store the user/pass as a per-server variable in the config file > and they get hauled around in the config class. <snip> ummm -- catching up email. Is there a Yum Bugzilla on this ? -- if not, please lemme know, and I'll slot this analysis for future maintainer/extenders. One thing missing from the foregoing analysis and design is .netrc support. This file is _the_ preferred natural for for the FTP username and password pairs -- and indeed, a better place, for using it yields one LESS place that has to be kept 700 for security. Stated, differently, to add Yet Another Place (/etc/yum.conf) with cleartext passwords is sub-optimal. To use .netrc alone, and to reference the decision in the yum.conf or yum man page is a win. -- Russ Herrold
