[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2012-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
If ubuntu-system-services is setting the proxy information in apt's config already, I don't think there's actually anything more to be done here. We should definitely *not* be whitelisting the http_proxy variable for sudo, as this allows a user with restricted sudo access to mitm attack http traffi

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2012-03-02 Thread Brian Murray
To be clear ubuntu-system-services sets the proxy server for you in /etc/apt/apt.conf: root@flash:/etc/apt# cat apt.conf APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; Acquire::http::proxy "http://192.68.10.1:3128/";; Acquire::https::proxy "https://192.68.10.1:3128/";; Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://192.68.1

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2012-02-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
Given Martin's comment in #29, and the -E or /etc/sudoers solutions, is there really anything to do in apt? I don't think you want apt to get the proxy from ubuntu-system-services (although maybe it makes sense to do so optionally if the service can be contacted). -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-12-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Note that for many releases now the proxy configuration guy (through ubuntu-system-service) is supposed to set the proxy in both the environment and the apt configuration. It will also ask you whether you want to apply a proxy configuration system-wide if you try to change it for your user only. Is

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-11-09 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04 ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
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[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-10-10 Thread Brian Murray
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[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-10-10 Thread Oliver Dungey
Taylor - I know that is a valid solution for many situations but it is not really a workaround, that is using the wrong users environment settings. I have been working for 3 years with the Amazon Cloud from inside a big corporate and I am sick to the back teeth of these proxy issues that have been

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-10-10 Thread Taylor Braun-Jones
There is a simpler workaround to preserve the http_proxy environment variable: sudo -E apt-get install ... However this preserves all other (potentially dangerous) environment variables. The point is that that environment variables which are safe and commonly needed in a sudo environment should b

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-10-10 Thread cnbiz850
Just as an update to this issue, it exists as of today on Ubuntu Natty 64bits. As noted above, the following circumvent it. 1) sudo sh 2) apt-get install ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-05-04 Thread Keith Rumley
I also agree with Mike. I'm constrained to specific proxies here at work. My pain point being 'sudo wget' during 'make' scripts. (Used workarounds from comment #16 successfully) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-04-23 Thread Taylor Braun-Jones
I agree with Mike. I assume sudo takes the whitelist approach to environment variables for security purposes (versus passing everything through and only blacklisting some), but that means the the default whitelist should be actively maintained so that that the most common use case scenarios work ou

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-04-20 Thread Mike Pontillo
I can tell you that as a user of Ubuntu systems behind firewalls (where the only way to get out is an HTTP proxy), I would *always* want http_proxy to be passed through. Otherwise, if I want to run something that connects via http to the Internet, I have to do: $ sudo -i Password: # export http_pr

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-04-19 Thread Micah Cowan
I strongly disagree with that idea. Reading from /etc/environment means that user-specific proxy settings are lost. Not letting apt receive the environment properly from its parent also means that you can't set up a temporary environment where all web fetches ought to go through a proxy, when you

[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

2011-04-19 Thread Martin Pitt
sudo is the wrong place to fix this, I'm afraid. What should happen instead is that apt itself should use the global proxy settings, either directly from /etc/environment, or indirectly by changing ubuntu-system- service to additionally write an apt configuration file with the proxy settings. Micha