[pca] Problem downloading patches with PCA on Solaris 10

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:23:32AM -0700, O'Flynn, Tom - Computing Technical Officer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> After much heartbreak trying to get solaris patching software working
> in a manner that did not crash my servers I found links to PCA on the
> web. As far as I can see the general consensus seems to be that this
> is the best way to manage solaris patching. I have therefore
> downloaded the script and it works find when scanning my servers but
> I cannot seem to get it to download patches from
> sunsolve.com.
> 
> As I am only staring with PCA I have kept everything simple for now.
> The contents of my /etc/pca.conf file are as follows:
> 
> user=%SOA username%
> passwd=%password_for_above%
> wget=/usr/sfw/bin/wget
> wgetproxy=http://address_of_proxy_server:8080
> 
> A simple pretend install of missing security patches produces the
> following output. It is probable that I’m missing something simple
> but I can’t see it. I would therefore be grateful for any help.
> 
> Thanks
> 

<snip>

> Option wget: /usr/sfw/bin/wget
> Option wgetproxy: --execute http_proxy=http://address_of_proxy_server:8080

<snip>

> Connecting to address_of_proxy_server[x.x.x.x]:8080... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> 11:55:34 ERROR 401: Unauthorized.

Seems to me like this is the key right here.  You might be able to tack
the username and password for _HTTP proxy authentication_ in your
wgetproxy URL, but I've never tried it.

  wgetproxy=http://proxyuser:proxypass@address_of_proxyserver:8080/

Ray