On 3/29/05 6:32 PM, "Stewart" <email@hidden> wrote:
I've been using the unix command softwareupdate -l to keep track of
which machines need updating, but now we've introduced proxy
authentication it's not working because there doesn't seem to be a way
to pass a username/password to the command. I thought about saving the
proxy information in System Preferences/Network/Proxies but as my
users
share machines and logins all over the place i really want to keep the
authentication happening at the application level.
Why would sharing machines/logins have anything to do with setting
proxies
in System prefs?
It's not the actual proxy that's at issue, it's the username and
password that must be entered to access the proxy. The whole point of
implementing proxy auth was to keep account of the amount of web
traffic used by each user, and using a system-wide name/pass would
defeat the porpoise.
as a side-effect, requiring proxy auth has also cut down on a lot of
other cruft such as printers trying to phone home and so on - it's
turned out to be quite The Good Thing for us - except for that now
remote softwareupdate doesn't work :-(
