Hola openSUSE users! As those of you who are using openSUSE 10.3 in networks behind proxy requiring authentication with username & password might have already noticed, package management stack i.e. YaST and zypper does not work out-of-the-box in such environment (for more info see bug #330351 and bug #227511, also http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3#openSUSE_10.3 links there) I have worked on the fix with Jano Kupec (zypper maintainer) and it's ready, but we are well aware of the fact that if we make it available as online update, those who are affected by this error will not be able to download it. There is an easy workaround and I'd like to use this mailing list to make it as much public as possible. Simply edit your /root/.curlrc file so that it looks like this: --proxy-user = "username:password" --proxy = "http://proxy.domain.com:8080" ( '=' characters are very important, thanks to Senthil Nachimuthu for pointing this out :-) ) Also, do not forget to escape any backslashes in username (which is another bug #331038, to be fixed together with this one) Please apply the above mentioned workaround(s), or download yast2-network 2.16.2 package from the Factory if you are affected by these bugs. B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter