On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:23:35PM -0400, Paul Pianta wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > >It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not > >the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if > >they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see > >the point of a user dealing with it. > > > >thoughts? > > I'm gonna jump in here - and I might be way off target (missed beginning > of thread) but I can see a need for username/password authentication > with yum ... You are indeed off target :) username/password auth is currently supported for http, https, and ftp via this mechanism: baseurl=http://username:password@xxxxxxx/direcory/ Read the thread in the archives (url in headers) for the details of this discussion. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
