Re: [gentoo-server] Can portage proxy username/password be encrypted?

[Marius Mauch]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:41 -0500
"Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@××.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> On my work box, running 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 (x86), I now need to use
> username/password authentication for our proxy.  And since my box
> isn't considered production (although I won't be very productive
> without it!), I need to use my own username/password for proxies
> listed in /etc/make.conf in order to "emerge --sync" and download
> packages.  I really don't relish the thought of my authentication
> info being backed up Corporately in clear text, and I'm pretty sure
> that's against Corporate Policy somehow.
>
> Is there a way to have the authentication info encrypted?  Even light
> encryption is preferrable to none and I'm not nearly concerned about
> username as I am about password.  Right now I'm manually using "zip"
> to decrypt the /etc/make.conf as needed, which means my cron'd daily
> portage updates won't work.

For distfiles fetching you can just override FETCHCOMMAND and
RESUMECOMMAND to something that handles the decryption of your
credentials transparently, don't know how rsync handles proxy data but
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS might be of use.

Marius

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