Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-18 Thread Hardik Dalwadi
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:18 PM, Anurag wrote: Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:06:43PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said: For use with apt-get, you may need to add it to /etc/apt/apt.conf to work You can also export the proxy settings through command line or put it in your .bash_profile

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-18 Thread Sanket Medhi
On 1/18/06, Anurag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was this the unethical way you were talking about? Yes! :) But I think there should be something else in these widely used tools to configure proxy. Storing the username/password in such a way is definitely insecure. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-18 Thread Anurag
Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:50:46PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said: Yes! :) But I think there should be something else in these widely used tools to configure proxy. Storing the username/password in such a way is definitely insecure. As it is its insecure. The user must realise that his

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-18 Thread JTD
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 2:03 pm, Anurag wrote: Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:50:46PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said: Yes! :) But I think there should be something else in these widely used tools to configure proxy. Storing the username/password in such a way is definitely insecure.

[ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-17 Thread Sanket Medhi
We have a proxy server in our college which I am handling. Every machine in the college has to enter a username/password to get access to the internet. The only problem I am facing is that there is no way to configure apt-get and Synaptic for the proxy alongwith username/password. They just give

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

2006-01-17 Thread Anurag
Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:06:43PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said: The only problem I am facing is that there is no way to configure apt-get and Synaptic for the proxy alongwith username/password. They just give an option of entering a proxy server entry, nothing for username/password. Is