RE: [squid-users] Re: ntlm won't prompt

Mozilla 1.4 claims to support NTLM authentication.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Aube [mailto:aaube@firstindependent.net]
Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 11:41
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Re: ntlm won't prompt

>Please excuse my ignorance. Would passwords be passed in clear text
using
>basic auth? Is there an authentication scheme that works without
clear text.

There are 3 types of auth supported in Squid:

1) Basic auth
  - Works with virutally any browser
  - Password is sent in clear text
  - Password can be stored any number of ways (depending on helper)
2) Digest auth
  - Works with most browsers
  - Password is not sent cleartext
  - Password must be stored in clear text
3) NTLM auth
  - Works only with IE; Does not prompt for username/password
  - Password is not sent cleartext
  - Password is not stored cleartext

Quite frankly, if you can use NTLM auth, do it. That is the one feature
in IE that I wish other browsers would emulate.

Adam
Received on Thu Jul 10 2003 - 20:16:31 MDT