Re: [squid-users] Browser fails to prompt for authentication

On Thursday 19 June 2003 19.04, Fred Evans wrote:
> I made sure that the password file is owned by the user squid runs
> as and is readable by that user.
>
> Prior to this installation of squid there was no transparent proxy.
> The browsers were not configured for proxying at all until I
> configured them to work with this install of squid. Further, I
> tested on IE and Mozilla for windows and Mozilla for linux.
>
> The config is as follows:
>
> auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd
> auth_param basic children 5
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
>
> acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> http_access allow all users

Looks good..

Any errors if you run "squid -k parse"?

Is there any other http_access lines before this?
(the order of your http_access lines is important)

Regards
Henrik

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