DOH! Looking through the man pages again. I have found you can set a user and password for the proxy to authenticate against. SORRY for wasting your time but hopefully it will help somebody else. i.e. read the man pages more carefully.
Thanks, Tony. -----Original Message----- From: ed tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:05, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Dan, > > It is my works network which has the server. They don't want to create a > root account as this is a possible security risk due to it being one of > the most hacked accounts (as well as admin). So I can authenticate as my > user through my Linux box, so I tried the old trick of changing my users > gid and uid, but it still sends the root user and pass. Changed that > back now though. All I need is a way to get root to send the auth to the > proxy server as me somehow. > > Thanks, > > Tony. > it is possible to add yourself or anyone else to a group like "wheel" and give that group permissions to install anything that root has, heck you can change the name of root, if you want to,,, it is linux after all > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 > "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I > > am behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not > > create a root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the > > updates. How do I do this? Can I do this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony. > > > > I'm not sure if it is possible, when installing software in Linux it > needs to put files into directory's that a normal user does not have > write access in. This is why when compiling from source you need to > become root to do the make install step of the installation. > I don't know much about proxy's except i don't like them personally but > i would think its not to hard for them to do something for you. > You only need root access to the computer you wish to do urpmi on so if > you can access the net as root you sould be able to use urpmi. Is it > your isp that has this proxy or is it on your network or are u on a > computer where you dont have root access ? > > Regards, > Dan Gordon > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/>
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