I agree with this, I am a quite uncomfortable with the security aspects of storing the proxy credentials in plain text in a file. Particularly in a corporate setting, which is where this is most likely to be a problem.
Anyway, this seems to have been addressed already. I searched a bit more and found Bug #48332 and Bug #48329, the latter says the same I did above in a more concise manner, and has been reported upstream to gnome. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339134 -- Synaptic doesn't play nicely with proxy-auth https://launchpad.net/bugs/56293 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
