A number of scripts on my system are relying on lynx which in turn can't pass through my proxy. More specifically, lynx successfully picks up the global proxy settings except the user id and password fields, suggesting to use -pauth on the command line instead:

lynx -pauth=proxyuserid:proxypass

Which I can't easily do because lynx is called indirectly. But then how should I do it, to apply these settings globally, for all lynx invocations? A configuration file -- couldn't find anything about proxy authorization. A bash shell wrapper under the same name lynx invoking the actual lynx with -pauth - somehow I can't make it work.