Hi, I imported the patch into baz: michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--http-authentication--0 [1] the frontends (synaptic, aptitude) needs support for this as well [2]. Cheers, Michael [1] at http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/arch/ubuntu [2] Synaptic patch (needs a bit of polish) is at http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/synaptic/http-auth.diff -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo