TSL Tips

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Proxies

While Firefox is configured to use the normal UCT Wpad configuration, this doesn't work with most Linux programs, as they don't support NTLM authentication. Each TSL machine has a CNTLM proxy running on `localhost:8080`. It's configured in NTLM2Basic mode - many programs *can* use basic authentication.

Some programs, like Epiphany, will prompt you to enter a proxy username and password. Others, will just throw an error.

So, you can either configure your UCT Username and Password under System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy -> Details (don't worry - it only applies to your user) or you can choose "Direct Connection" and only access on-campus resources.

Wget

Create a file called `.wgetrc`:

proxy-user=ABCDEF001
proxy-password=secret-password

Pidgin

  • Configure your accounts to use "No Proxy"

or

  • choose "Gnome Proxy Settings" and configure your GNOME username and password as described above.