[Bug 1425] New: Sitewide changes to proxy settings do not affect PXE, APT and /etc/environment

[drift@skolelinux.org]

http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425

           Summary: Sitewide changes to proxy settings do not affect PXE,
                    APT and /etc/environment
           Product: Skolelinux
           Version: lenny-test
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: debian-edu-config
        AssignedTo: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
        ReportedBy: pere@hungry.com


The file http://wpad/wpad.dat is used to configure the proxy settings for the
entire site, and the content is used by browsers at run time (both iceweasel
and konqueror), and used to set/update the values used in /etc/environment,
/etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/debian-edu/www/debian-edu-install.dat during
installation.

When a system administrator changes the settings in wpad.dat, this do not
take automaticaly effect for APT, PXE and all programs using the setting
from /etc/environment.  This differ from how Microsoft Internet Explorer
and Windows with AD works, where the proxy setting for everything can
be controlled centrally through AD.

I believe we should add a init.d script or a cron job to make sure the rest of
the system settings are changed when the wpad.dat file is changed, to avoid
surprising system administrators who reasonably expect modifying wpad.dat
should affect all systems using the proxy setting.


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