On Mon, 31 May 2004, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > > 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 > > publicly > > accessible. 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 Yes, it turns out that works. I originally thought it did not but I tried it again and once I corrected a typo it worked. Now the only problem is how to hide the passwd. I realize one could just sniff the passwd anyway but is there a way to not give it away by simply running yum? When the failover mechanism kicks in it prints the username and passwd. :-( Regards, Tom
