RE: [SQU] proxy authentication

Hi paul,
  Thanks for the help,I am still stuck with a small
problem reconfiguration of squid with -k option.

--- Paul Clayton <paulc@unihold.co.za> wrote:
> I have recently done this at our offices. It is
> quite simple. You need to
> compile thwe source code. So for instance you
> mention NCSA auth. Go to your
> source page, and change directory to /squid
> {whatever the version is
> }/auth_modules/NCSA
>
> Run `make`
> then run `make install`
>
> check in your /usr/local/squid/bin directory that
> the file "ncsa_auth" is
> installed. If not something went wrong.

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ncsa_auth is installed, it is in
"/usr/bin " dir
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> Now in your squid.conf file you will need 3 lines as
> follows
>
> "authenticate_program /usr/local/squid/bin/ncsa_auth
> usr/local/squid/etc/passwd"
>
> "acl password proxy_auth all REQUIRED"
>
> "http_access allow password"
>
> I have used the quotes to highlight the lines. The
> lines do go in specific
> places for clarity.

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I did this
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>
> Now use "htpasswd" to create a password file and
> list for your users.
>
> `htpasswd -b /usr/local/etc/passwd fred
> 13$#21my_password`

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I am using the "/etc/passwd " file, I copied it to a
different dir and gave that path in squid.conf file
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>
>
> Reconfigure squid with the -k option and it should
> run.
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what is the command for this.
*************
>
> Regards
>
*****************
I tried to run squid after doing the above
changes(without reconfigureing squid with the -k
option as I donot know the commands for that),I get a
error as follows

"FATAL:All authenticators have exited!"

Please help

thanks

Ajay

---
> From: ajay chaudhari [mailto:ajaylinux@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: squid-users
> Subject: [SQU] proxy authentication
> 
> 
> hi,
>     I am useing redhat 5.2 linux as my proxy server.
> everything is working fine.
>     Now I want to have authentication on the
> server,I
> want to give the users a login name and password for
> the proxy server.
>    
>     By reading I found that I need to compile squid
> for  proxy authentication.I want to use "ncsa_auth"
> program  for the same.
> 
>     But as Linux is new to me I hardly know any
> commands, so please if someone can give me the
> commands  for the following.
> 
> 1> to compile squid for proxy authentication using
> ncsa_auth program.
> 
> 2> how to give login name & password.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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