Re: [squid-users] htpasswd+ncsa_auth

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 00:49:18 +0200

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 21.42, Allen Miller wrote:
> I am running Squid-2.5.stable2 on a RedHat 7.2 system with
> Apache-1.3.20-16. Everything works, but my passwords are limited to
> 8-characters.
>
> Is this an imposed limit or do I have something else going on?

It is a the limit of NCSA style password files using the plain old
crypt() hash, not a limit if HTTP authentication.

I have imported MD5 hash support in the ncsa_auth helper shipped with
Squid-3. The MD5 hash does not have this limitation of 8 characters.
Please give the new helper a try if you are interested.

Note: the ncsa_auth helper from squid-3 also works with Squid-2.5.

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Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 16:50:44 MDT

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