yast update not working with Novell Border manager authentication?
Hi All, Authentication has been implemented on our Novell BorderManager proxy servers: this way, the desktops, when they do'nt authenticate on our novell network, need to provide username and password before navigating in Internet But since this modification, my SuSe servers are not able to fetch a list of security updates, and obviously download them. I've setup the proxy in yast providing username and password but before being giving me the list of updates, there is the following error: "signature check for patch info files failed.Cannot load patch information. " And when I click on details, it gives the following message: Path:<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Novell/i386/update/9.0/patches/<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Novell BorderManager</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><b><p>The document has moved <A HREF="https:/172.16.11.1:444/BM-Login/?%22http:/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse/<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Novell/i386/upd ate/9.0/patches/directory.3%22">here.</A></b></BODY></HTML> It seems that, even if I provide a username and password, the BorderManager is redirecting my linux server to the authentication page (172.16.11.1 corresponds to one of the border manager server) Any help would be appreciated Gaël
Authentication has been implemented on our Novell BorderManager proxy servers I've setup the proxy in yast providing username and password but before being giving me the list of updates, there is the following error:
BorderManager's login page is proprietary in a way that does not provide an authentication request in a way that YaST expects it. AFAIK the only way around it would be to set the NBM to allow your server's IP address to go through without requiring authentication.
In fact, it's what our novell administrator has done, i.e create an access
rule that allows the IP address of that machine to the site it needs to
reach. Then check the "autnehticate only when user attempts to access
restricted site" and put that rule on top of the others.
It works for our servers but several users, including myself, have
problems navigating a few sites including hotmail, yahoo
Gael
"Jesse Pretorius"
Authentication has been implemented on our Novell BorderManager proxy servers I've setup the proxy in yast providing username and password but before being giving me the list of updates, there is the following error:
BorderManager's login page is proprietary in a way that does not provide an authentication request in a way that YaST expects it.
AFAIK the only way around it would be to set the NBM to allow your server's IP address to go through without requiring authentication.
It works for our servers but several users, including myself, have problems navigating a few sites including hotmail, yahoo
You admin needs to stay current with patches and ensure that they have upgrade protection for NBM. NBM, like most caches, also has the ability to set cache bypasses for certain sites... And that can be tried to solve problems with problematic sites. Many of them are well known and I'd suggest that the admin get active in the Novell Support Forums. NBM has a loyal following there with some good sysadmins out there. I'd suggest any more discussion on that topic is rather done outside of this list, however. :-)
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