Bug 127905

Summary: up2date (and rhn_register) barf if proxy user or password are numeric
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Bret McMillan <bretm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2004-07-15 07:00:22 UTC 
up2date-2.9.3-1.2.1AS and rhn_register-2.9.3-1.2.1AS barf if proxy
user or proxy password in the config file are entirely numeric.

I suppose we could use the default or previous value to tell whether
the value is to be converted to int or remain as a string.  E.g., if
the key is already defined, with a value that is an integer, we
convert the new value to integer.  If it is already defined to a
string, we leave the new value alone.  Otherwise, we may apply the
current heuristics, just to make sure we're not unexpectedly changing
behavior.
Comment 2 Clifford Perry 2006-04-03 16:35:27 UTC 
Since Enterprise Linux 2.1 has gone into maintenance mode, this bug will not be
fixed in 2.1. This though has been fixed in Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 - see bugs:

145554
159856

Regards,
Clifford.