Re: Q: How can I 'reset' the username/password cache of the ncsaauthenticator?

Klaus-Peter.Neurohr@toshiba-teg.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Question:
> Is there any possibility to reset the username/password cache of the ncsa
> authenticator apart from killing and restarting squid and/or ncsa_auth.
>
> Intention:
> Our Squid proxy is set up with ncsa authentication. We will write a
> programm that changes our ncsa user/passwordfile depending on a userprofile
> stored in a separate file. This file stores information when an user is
> allowed to use the cache.
> We just put a # in front of the username to disable him. This programm is
> run by cron several times a day.
> (we try to implemet this because, as far is I know, ncsa usernames can't be
> used in Squid acl's in the squid.conf file)

You could modify the NCSA authenticator to accept a signal (say SIGHUP)
to reload it's data. It's not an uncommon sort of thing to do with
programs.

D
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 17:25:30 MDT