[clug] NTLM proxy authentication - it's working, it's not

[Drew Parsons]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:38 +1000, Mike Carden wrote:
> > My question is: has anyone else had any experience with this
> > kind of authentication and can they give me any advice on
> > what to do to get my system working with the proxy?
> 
> 
> Yeah, a bit. I'm still the third Google hit for 'ntlmaps ubuntu'.
> 
> My experience could be summarised as:
> 
> 1. Yes, use ntlmaps

LOL nice to hear people are using it.  I'm the DD who first packaged
it :)

> 2. The apt-get (dpkg) default installation in both Debian and Ubuntu
> is broken in that the install script doesn't have a low enough default
> granularity. I logged this as a bug a long time ago but it hasn't
> garnered any love. 

Heh oh that must be the new package maintainer's fault ;)

Drew