Hi I have installed FC4 on my comp and tried to configure yum. I am behind a proxy server which requires authentication. My /etc/yum.conf file is [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=0 # The proxy server - proxy server:port number proxy=http://vsnlproxy.iitk.ac.in:3128/ # The account details for yum connections proxy_username=spsingh proxy_password=passwd I had a password with % in it. When I tried yum update I got HTTP Error 407 ie authentication required. On searching the net for yum proxy problem I came across this http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000781.html The guy could not connect to proxy server because of a special character which yum misread/misencrypted. I changed my password to include only alphanumeric and yum worked!!!! Wget, apt (in ubuntu5.10) worked with old password. Does yum not support special characters?? I had similar problem last month while trying to install gentoo. Emerge did not work. Can someone try this on gentoo and let me know. I will appreciate it. Thanks Sumeet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060319/5f7fa9da/attachment.html
