A patch which adds a description of using HTTP basic auth with the baseurl. Sean Index: ./docs/yum.conf.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/yum/cvs/yum/docs/yum.conf.5,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -u -r1.38 yum.conf.5 --- ./docs/yum.conf.5 3 Dec 2005 07:15:10 -0000 1.38 +++ ./docs/yum.conf.5 8 Feb 2006 05:29:33 -0000 @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you will find yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don't do this, you've been warned. +.br +You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server +name in the baseurl line. For example: +"baseurl=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxx/";. .IP \fBmirrorlist\fR Specifies a URL to a file containing a list of baseurls. This can be used -- Linux, because eventually you grow up enough to be trusted with a fork(). Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo@xxxxxxxxx> tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995: Ask me about High Availability Back off man. I'm a scientist. http://HackingSociety.org/
