yast update not working with Novell Border manager authentication?

2 Aug 2004

      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

g.lams＠itcilo.org

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