Re: Problems with ftp/update installed packages
sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
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Chris> FTP Error: USER request failed: 500 AUTH not understood.
Evgeny> I saw the same exact problem. Add a "-u" to the list which is the
Evgeny> value of the efs-ftp-program-args variable [...]
Evgeny> The "-u" tells RedHat ftp client not to try to do
Evgeny> "auto-authentication" -- see the ftp(1) man page on your RedHat box
Evgeny> for details.
Thanks for figuring this out. Could someone report this bug to the
RedHat folks? Or is it gone in 7.0?
No, it's not. The ftp client is from MIT Kerberos so the bugreport
should probably go there as well.