External Auth

I have been unsucessfully trying to write a external authenticator
in perl to use a mysql database for authenication. When I run it
from a command line, it seems to work. I used the ncsa_auth as
a model. However when squid trys to run it either dies or constantly
say Authentication Failed. Does anyone have any guidelines for writting
such a tool.

TIA
--Jeff

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Jeff Beley <jbeley@astcorp.com>
Network Administrator
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