Re: [squid-users] Re: i am facing problem in authentication

From: Henrik Nordström <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:40:23 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, sumit nagal wrote:

> i am using this /etc/shadow from last 6 month with
> ncsa_auth in similar manner as i mentioned in
> squid-2.3STABLE4 to squid-2.4STABLE1
> it is working fine...

Then you must have seriously crippled your system to the security level
without shadow passwords, and your shadow file must be using the old and
insecure crypt() password hashing method.

> the problem i am facing now is i am uanable to create
> user base acl rule ..i am using
> acl sumit proxy_auth sumit
> http_access allow sumit...
> now suppose if i want to block for sumit ,
> then if i write http_access deny sumit
> it is telling that proxy authorization failed.
> i am blocking certain user for internet ...

Should work just fine...

Squid will request the user to login if denied by a proxy_auth ACL. If you
do not want this (but rather want a "Access Denied" message then use

http_access deny summit all

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Sep 02 2002 - 02:40:28 MDT

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