help! basic-auth not working from custom yum repo file

[Tom Sztur <tsztur@xxxxxxxxx>]

it seems that basic auth from a custom yum repo file is not working.

We have our enviroment running an internal repository.

We have had no problems with Red Hat sytems and some Ubuntu.

However I installed YUM on Ubuntu (no choice, our entire eviroment runs on yum repos for distrution).

When setting up a custom yum repo with basic auth like this:

baseurl=http://username:password@internalip/

or

http://user%40example.com:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/foo/$releasever/$basearch

 

I followed instructions in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143691

 

nothing helps.  Error is always; 'HTTP Error 401: basic auth failed'

 

Errors on the webserver show as no username/password being sent whatsoever.

 

When I take out authentication on the server and make it work without a username/password it works fine.

yum version is 3.2.25

python version is 2.6

Ubuntu version is 10.10.

How can I fix this?

this is becoming a huge problem.

 

tia.

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