Re: [squid-users] credentialsttl

From: Alejandro Javier Pomeraniec <apomeraniec@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:07:06 +0000

Hi !

I am using squid_ldap_auth helper to authenticate.

I need squid to query the helper again to any user that has been inactive for a period of time, let's say 20 minutes.

Thanks !!

On 08 Jul 2003 14:25:56 +0200
Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:

> tis 2003-07-08 klockan 14.07 skrev Adam Aube:
>
> > I notice that it's only listed for basic auth; does it also work with NTLM
> > auth?
>
> NTLM auth works very differently, and the helpers need to be queried a
> lot compared to basic. Basically there is two helper queries per client
> TCP connnection.
>
> The closest similar parameter of NTLM auth is the max_challenge_reuses
> and max_challenge_lifetime parameters, but again, these are very
> different from the basic auth credentialsttl parameter. Also, these
> parameters are merely a bandaid to lessen the impact of a slight design
> problem in the current Squid NTLM implementation and may go away in a
> later Squid release.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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