On 3/29/05 7:00 PM, "Stewart" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
>
I would say that's not the best reason to use a proxy, and that there are
other utilities that will do this without causing you this problem but since
that's what you're doing, no matter.
> 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 :-(
Hmm...well, the rather ugly solution that occurs to me is to use
networksetup, inside of the ARDagent.app bundle to set up the machine to
authenticate to the proxy as though you did it in System prefs, then run
softwareupdate, then run networksetup again to undo your changes. Since it's
all done at the shell level, you should be able to script it without too
much pain.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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