Proxy "Apply System Wide" does not preserve authentication settings

[Brian]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Arch: amd64
Dist: Lucid Lynx (10.04)

Executable Path:
/usr/bin/gnome-network-properties:

When changing the proxy preferences, authentication settings are not carried through to some of the "System Wide" applications.

Authentication is generally set using http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_ip_address:proxy_port, however some of these applications are only configured with no authentication information (http_proxy=http://proxy_ip_address:proxy_port)

The main application that I noticed this on is apt (/etc/apt/apt.conf), but I will sporadically run into other application that I have to manually update as well.

[Henning Moll (drscott)]

I can confirm this problem (10.04): Though the authentication credentials are entered in gnome-network-properties and set as system wide, they are not present in

 * $http_proxy in shell environments. Neither in on pure tty, nor within terminals under gnome.
 * /etc/apt/apt.conf
 * Synaptics

In all these cases, only the normal proxy informations are present.
On the other hand:

 * update-manager works.
 * firefox works, but is still asking for auth credentials.

There is interesting output, if you start gnome-network-properties on a commandline...

It should be up to the administrator whether the auth credentials are also set system wide or not.

[Henning Moll (drscott)]

in 10.10 even update-manager does not work anymore...

[Henning Moll (drscott)]

The function "apply system-wide" should at least also update /etc/apt/apt.conf including authentication credentials. This would fix many issues (also the following).

An additional remark for those who will sometimes address/fix this issue. There is also a little problem with "sudo" as it will clear the environment variable http_proxy in case it have been set before. One solution could be to use "env_keep". But this could be a security concern. Maybe sudo has another way to define environment variables in a fixed way.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that an issue in Oneiric?