Puppet users - Dec 2013 - The error we caught said '407 "authenticationrequired"' during module install behind proxy

I read at a number of places that if my puppet master is behind a proxy 
which requires authentication 

puppet module command does not work

despite setting the global parameters 
http_proxy, https_proxy on bash the command throws an error

[root@centos-razor ~]# puppet module install saz/dnsmasq --force
Notice: Preparing to install into /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules ...
Notice: Downloading from https://forge.puppetlabs.com ...
Error: Could not connect to https://forge.puppetlabs.com
  There was a network communications problem
    The error we caught said ''407
"authenticationrequired"''
    Check your network connection and try again


setting the values http_proxy_host and http_proxy_port inside puppet.conf 
doesnt help either, as there is a no way I can set username and password 
there.


Is there a workaround for this?

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Thanks,
Felix

On 12/08/2013 07:51 AM, Arvind P R wrote:
> I read at a number of places that if my puppet master is behind a proxy
> which requires authentication 
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