On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:57 PM, Tom Diehl wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get yum to use an ftp based repository that is not > publically > accessable. As a result I need to pass a username and passwd to the ftp > server. Does anyone know how to get yum to do this? There does not > seem to be > anything in the docs about this. This is a guess & assumption, yum uses a 3rd party software package to talk http/ftp I would guess you can do ftp://username:password@site/path -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions 412 - 135 Gorge Road E Victoria, BC V9A 1L1 T/F 250.385.4613 http://www.gnat.ca/