Re: [ILUG-BOM] Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic

Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:06:43PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said:

The only problem I am facing is that there is no way to configure apt-get and Synaptic for the proxy alongwith username/password. They just give an option of entering a proxy server entry, nothing for username/password. Is there anything to configure proxy with username/password in apt-get and

In Synaptic preferences, you have to specify proxy directive like this: [[user][:pass]@]proxy.host

For use with apt-get, you may need to add it to /etc/apt/apt.conf to work

Synaptic? (Actually, there is one I know but its unethical and insecure to be used on the local network.)

Was this the unethical way you were talking about?

Anurag