[ILUG] Squid Proxy Authentication

[Anil Sasidharan]

Hi,

        We are running our squid caching proxy in
Redhat Linux 7.0 (
kernel 2.2.16-22 ) . We are able to use the proxy
without any user
authentication. Now I want to do some user
authentication. For that I
compiled the ncsa_auth module and copied it to
/usr/local/squid/bin
directory.

My squid.conf has the following entries...

authenticate_program   /usr/local/squid/bin/ncsa_auth 
    			/etc/passwd
authenticate_children  5

acl  testusers  proxy_auth  arun   raj   kesav

http_access allow testusers

when I start squid it spawns 5 processes of ncsa_auth
with the argument
as /etc/passwd. But when i try to access any site
after supplying my
username and password the proxy responds with a
message "Proxy
Authentication Failed" eventhough my password is valid
for that
username.  I tried to use the ncsa_auth from command
line it is working
perfectly alright.

If anybody has any idea....please respond
immediately..

regrads
Anil .S
anils at multitech.co.in







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