On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:59:32PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > > On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:57 PM, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > 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 I'm not sure if I'd call it "3rd party" :) Basically, urlgrabber (which came into existence as part of yum) is a layer over urllib2. urllib2 is one of the standard python modules. > 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. :-( Oooh... That's a really interesting point. I hadn't thought of that. That might be worth pondering. Perhaps the urls should be "scrubbed" before they're printed: ftp://****:****@site/path The question is where to do that. I'll think about it a bit. -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
