Take the 2-minute tour ×  My system is running Fedora 16 and I
live in a campus where we use LAN to connect to the Internet.
And for this, we use an http proxy with authentication (username
& password). I tried putting the proxyaddress:port in the
Network Proxy settings after going to the Network Settings
window. However, it never asked for an authentication and the
programs that use the internet are unable connect, except for
Firefox because it asks for authentication. Also, I could get
Yum to work by manually editing yum.conf. I even tried using
http://username:password@proxy:port like in the Yum
configuration but it has not helped.  Is there any solution to
this problem?  Thank you.  share|improve this question The GNOME
manual mentions a Details button in Network Proxy settings, have
you tried this? –  sr_ Mar 8 '12 at 8:42 Unfortunately, there is
no such Details button. Atleast not in Fedora 16. –  Vishnu Mar
8 '12 at 11:23 add comment  migrated from serverfault.com Mar 7
'12 at 14:28   1 Answer  up vote