[pca] Problem downloading patches with PCA on Solaris 10

[O'Flynn, Tom - Computing Technical Officer]

Hi everyone,
Thanks for suggestions. 
I found what the problem was and it is related to Martin's point below
about special characters in the password. 
The password contained '=' as one of it's characters. Therefore the
pca.conf file contained the line
 
passwd=****=* 

I think the second '=' character must have confused the software.
Now, that I've got it working it's easy to see why everyone is so
complimentary about pca compared to rubbish produced!

Regards,
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at
[mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: 21 May 2008 14:56
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Problem downloading patches with PCA on Solaris 10

Hi,

> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> 11:55:34 ERROR 401: Unauthorized.

This usually either means that the username/password you specified is 
incorrect (please check that again; do you have any special chars in the

password?) or that you Sun Online Account is a free account only (ie. 
not connected to a $$$ support contract) which only allows downloading a

certain subset of patches (security patches and some more).

If it *is* a valid SOA connected to a support contract, you might 
experience a temporary SunSolve hickup; try again later and let us know.

Martin.

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