Greetings Seth: Thank you. My user name is based on an email address so there are two "@" (one in the user name, and then after the password). That appears to choke. I tried escaping the first @ but that doesn't work. Thoughts? Thank you. At 01:10 PM 2/13/2004, you wrote: >On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:59 -0500, Peter M. Abraham wrote: > > Is there a way to configure yum to utilize a user id and password to > access > > repositories on a Web server with password protection? If so, how? > >in your baseurl: > >http://username:password@hostname/path/to/repo > >-sv > > >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum