User credentials under Linux

[halloleo]

Firstly, thanks heaps for developing px - it might solve big troubles for me!

Secondly, if I want to use px on Linux (RHEL 8), how do I provide the user credentials (particularly the password)? My Linux system doesn't "knows" the credentials for the NTLM proxy.

Thanks for any pinters!

Background:

In the past, on Linux RHEL 6, I used cntlm where I provide the username and the hashed password in a config file. This worked great, but I cannot get cntlm running under RHEL 8...

[genotrance]

Right now, the recommendation is to use keyring which is a standard password storage mechanism across operating systems. This is documented in the README.

It is super easy to set up on Windows and I've had good success on Ubuntu and Alpine Linux. However on Red Hat based systems, I've had some trouble if there is no GUI, for example in headless or docker setups. The recommendation is to use the keyring_jeepney package in such cases.

Please let me know if you have any trouble, will be happy to support getting this working on Linux.

[halloleo]

Thanks @genotrance for chiming in!

Before installing more stuff I would like to test whether px can work in our network set-up. Is there a way to provide for testing the credentials on the command line?

[genotrance]

Right now, you would need to get Px running on your setup either using pip or the binary releases if you are running a supported distro.

In the hopefully near future, you can be confident that Px will work anywhere that curl does since I am close to releasing v0.7.0 that replaces the current backend with libcurl. You would simply run:

curl --proxy-anyauth --proxy-user "user:password" -v http://google.com

If it works, you will know Px can as well.