On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:09:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At office, after having installed a freebsd (OS on which I'm pretty
> experienced)server, I installed a new (web-)server with openbsd 4.0, OS on
> which I'm an absolute beginner, even though the experience with the other BSD
> helps a lot.
>
> Now I'm trying to install a basic set of packages under openbsd using the
> command (similar to the one I use under freebsd):
>
> pkg_add -v ftp://.........../package
>
> but I'm unable to reach any site because my box is behind a firewall-proxy
> needing userid and password authentication.
>
> I tried defining two environmental variables (as under freebsd) $http_proxy
> and
> $ftp_proxy to no avail with openbsd.
>
> Google didn't help.
>
> How can I define once and for all the userid and password of the proxy?
Well, you can set it explicitly in the url, as documented in ftp(1).
Am I correct in thinking that ftp_proxy and http_proxy do not currently
support username and password? If this is the case, shouldn't this be
added to BUGS or fixed?
Joachim
