Re: Proxy autentification in squid2.1patch2

Petr Procenko wrote:

> I have troubles with proxy autenticate.
> In squid-1.beta22 there was acl-type user,
> there was a posibility to create two groups of users:

The old acl named "user" in Squid 1.2 was renamed to ident to reflect
what it checks. ident type ACLs checks the user name returned by the
ident protocol. The type user is kept as a synonym for ident.

If you'd like to use login+password access control then look for the acl
type proxy_auth and the accompanying squid.conf directive
authenticate_program which controls how passwords are verified.
Unfortunately there is a bug in Squid 2 which makes it impossible to
restrict proxy_auth to only selected users even thought the squid.conf
documentation says it is possible. Patch for this is available from
http://hem.passagen.se/hno/squid/

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker