Bug 656978

Summary: Unable to connect on repository using HTTP basic authentication
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Alexandre Frandemiche <slobberbone>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.5CC: james.antill, jon.burney, nphilipp, ralph, ssimpson
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Description Alexandre Frandemiche 2010-11-24 16:02:38 UTC 
Description of problem:

Man page of yum.con :

You  can  use  HTTP  basic  auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server name in the baseurl line.  For example: "baseurl=http://user:passwd@example.com/".


If you do that, the repository doesn't work whereas the same repository file on Fedora 14 works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Yum 3.2.22-26.el5 on x86_64
Under CentOS 5.5 (with no update, so like REHL 5.5)


How reproducible:

Ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a repository who works without http basic authentication
2.In your httpd.conf, add :
<Directory /var/www/repo>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Password Required"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords/repo
    Require valid-user
</Directory>
3.Add a user to htpasswd :
htpasswd -c /../mypasswordsFile user
4.Finally, change your repository file in /etc/yum.repos.d like explain in man page :

baseurl=http://user:passwd@www.example.com/
  
Actual results:

Not Working
Comment 1 seth vidal 2010-11-29 20:56:05 UTC 
just to be sure - you can get to that repo via a web browser, right?
Comment 2 Alexandre Frandemiche 2010-11-30 07:38:41 UTC 
Yes of course, and the exactly same file.repo under Fedora 14 works perfectly !
Comment 3 James Antill 2013-03-14 19:26:52 UTC 
 This may be fixed in later versions of RHEL-5, if not it should be in RHEL-6 (we fixed a number of weird cases for basic auth.)