Hi Guys
Recently UNAM has implemented proxy authentication and this gave rise to a bit of hectic googling within our small but growing Linux crowd. Here's what we figured out, FYI.
Browsers:
* Firefox: setup the proxy variables in
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings
and Firefox will prompt for the username & password
(you can let Firefox remember it to speed things up)
* Konqueror: setup proxy variables in
Settings->Configure Konqueror->Web Browsing->Proxy
Select "Manually specify the proxy settings" and press "Setup..."
and Konqueror will prompt for the username & password
(you can setup kwallet to make this easier and faster)
* Kget will work the same way as it reads KDE's proxy info
Package management:
* Mandriva users:
There's an "Authentication" button under the Package Sources application
in the Control Centre where you can enter the username and password
* Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu & PCLinuxOS
Become root (or sudo) and edit the file /etc/apt/apt.conf to add the line:
Acquire::http::Proxy "
http://username:password@proxy.yourdomain:port/";
now command-line "apt-get", Synaptic and Adept will work to install/upgrade
packages and hardware drivers.
* Users of Synaptic under Ubuntu and Debian can also as an alternative use the
"Authentication" button under the Network preferences tab where the proxy
is specified to add the authentication information.
* Users of Synaptic and apt4rpm under PCLinuxOS can alternatively specify
their proxy variable as follows under the Network preferences tab:
"username:password@proxy.yourdomain" and remember to set the port
* Gentoo users: add the following options to their FETCHCOMMAND and
RESUMECOMMAND variables after /usr/bin/wget in /etc/make.conf
--proxy-user=username --proxy-passwd=password
* wget users can use the same options as stated above.
E.g. for UNAM "proxy.yourdomain:port" is "proxy.unam.na:80"
Hope this is useful
Regards
Riaan
