How do I diagnose this?

[Darrell Michaud]

bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> ....
> When I first used my
> browser in linux, it challenged me.  I provided the correct credentials
> and was able to access the net.
>


As others have said a clean fix is to configure your services like yum and
ftp (use a graphical client for easiest configuration) to use your
company's proxy server with the correct authentication data. This will
work as long as those services support your proxy's authentication
mechanism.

Another advanced option is to run your own transparent proxy, which then
itself authenticates and forwards to your company's proxy. This gives you
the benefit of being able to support applications that are proxy-unaware.

In a pinch.. One trick that has worked for me in the past if your proxy
uses HTTP cookies for session-tracking is to programatically feed those
active cookies to wget and similar tools so they can piggyback on to your
browser's session. This is a general mechanism that is useful for
automating tasks on web sites/applications that use simple cookie-based
authentication, especially if the cookies do not have server-side enforced
expiration times.