Derek,
Thanks for the confirmation that an email address works as the user name.
I'll keep poking around.
- One other item is that the system I am running pca from has limited internet
access and I have an entry in hosts for sunsolve.
192.18.108.40 sunsolve.sun.com
- I will see if I can locate a system outside of my lab and try my account.
Thanks,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Derek Terveer
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:24 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Sun Online Account user name is an email address
My online account is also an email address in the form,
[email protected]
and it works. You could try the -a switch to force it to prompt you for the
password, as needed.
derek
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:54:00AM -0400, Earle, William B - SSD wrote:
> I have a valid Sun Online Account user name which is an email address.
> The user name contains an @ [at] symbol and a period.
>
> I am unable to download patches using pca, I get an "Authorization failed."
> error when running pca in verbose mode (-V).
>
> Is there a simple way to escape the @ symbol and the period in the username?
>
> I've tried backslah escaping, I've tried single & double quotes, I've tried
> URL encoding "%40", but still get the "Authorization failed." error.
>
>
> ex:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 116837 02 < 04 RS- 243 Sun LDAP C SDK 5.19 patch : SunOS sparc
>
> Looking for 116837-04 (2/586)
> Trying https://sunsolve.sun.com/ (1/1)
> /usr/sfw/bin/wget
> "https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=116837-04&method=h";
> --ca-certificate=/usr/local/bin/pca --header="Authorization: Basic
> YmlsbEBiaWxsZWFybGUuY29tOnVic3BlYWs=" -O
> /var/tmp/securing/TD-patchcluster-Sol-10/./116837-04.tmp
> --11:30:02-- https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=116837-04&method=h
> => `/var/tmp/securing/TD-patchcluster-Sol-10/./116837-04.tmp'
> Resolving sunsolve.sun.com... 192.18.108.40
> Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> Authorization failed.
> Failed
> Failed (patch not found)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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Derek Terveer
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