Re: Authenticate against multiple password files

Thanks to all who replied. The concat method looks to be the simplest
method and doable within my own current skillset.

Cheers,

> Simon Bryan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have Squid authenticating nicely against a password file, but it would
> > be very convenient if it could actually work against a number of files,
> > ie check them all until a match is found (or not found. This would make
> > it easy for us to add / remove whole year groups of users (we are a
> > school). For instance I still have all of last years school leavers in
> > the file. Or is there another way to achieve what I wnat to do?
>
> It is possible. I posted a program to do so some week ago.
>
> However, my recommendation is instead to concat the files together
> whenever they are changed.
>
> cat passwd1.txt passwd2.txt passwd3.txt ... > passwd.txt
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker

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OLMC Parramatta