[pca] Asking for MOS authentication

[Fred]

When going through a proxy, all I get is an Unauthorized error unless the
creds are supplied up front.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine at kickflop.net> wrote:

> There's no reason for --askauth (which is what I assume
> -a was).
>
> If MOS login is needed, pca will prompt you for your
> information just as if --askauth had been used.
>
>
> On 10/31/2011 3:44 PM, Fred wrote:
>
>> I miss the -a command line option option for pca.
>>
>> When it comes to providing the MOS password I do not want the password
>> stored cleartext in a config file, and I don't want it used on the
>> command line where it can be read in the shell's command line history.
>>
>> I use pca on servers that connect to a local caching proxy. I used to
>> run 'pca -i -a missing' to patch a system, but since the -a option was
>> deprecated I seem to have lost the ability to transmit my MOS auth
>> credentials to the proxy server without using --user=, --passwd=.
>>
>> Unless there's another way to do this (and there very well may be), how
>> about if --user is specified without a matching --passwd, the password
>> is prompted for on the shell before proceeding?
>>
>> --
>> Fred Chagnon
>> fchagnon at gmail.com <mailto:fchagnon at gmail.com>
>>
>
>


-- 
Fred Chagnon
fchagnon at gmail.com
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