From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 Description of problem: The up2date configuration GUI accepts '#' in a proxy password but then it doesn't use it. I had the password "1Coffees#" and I wasn't able to get past my proxy because the '#' character was left off the end of proxyPassword. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set proxyPassword to xxxxxxx# 2. Try to launch up2date through a proxy that requires authentication and the password xxxxxxx# 3. Actual Results: Error: proxy requires authentication (or some message like that) Expected Results: up2date should have launched Additional info: none.
hmm, indeed. Investigating.
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.