[SOLVED] How would yum ( on centos host ) work with proxy that requires an ssl cert

Issue

I am trying to setup proxy in /etc/yum.conf with https and ssl cert Normally, i would have proxy=http://x.x.x.x:80 provided that is the proxy address and since my proxy does not require username and password, that would work. But now i have a requirement, to setup /etc/yum/conf with proxy=https://x.x.x.x:433 and the yum hosting centos can only talk to internet via a proxy which accepts ssl cert based Authentication. So how would i install the ssl Cert on the centos host for yum to work with the proxy host on port 443 and one that requires an SSL Cert

Solution

It looks like you should be able to use the following config directives taken from the yum.conf manual page.

sslclientcert

Path to the SSL client certificate yum should use to connect to repos/remote sites Defaults to none. Note that if you are using curl compiled against NSS (default in Fedora/RHEL), curl treats sslclientcert values with the same basename as identical. This version of yum will check that this isn't true and output an error when the repositories "foo" and "bar" violate this, like so: sslclientcert basename shared between foo and bar

sslclientkey

Path to the SSL client key yum should use to connect to repos/remote sites Defaults to none.

Answered By - user3788685

Answer Checked By - Willingham (WPSolving Volunteer)