Re: [squid-users] NCSA Authentication...help

From: Schelstraete Bart <bart@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:43:49 +0200

David Jacobs wrote:

>I realize this should be a simple thing, but I am new to squid. I am
>using the RPM that comes with redhat 9. I setup NCSA authentication and
>I am getting a login and password prompt from the browser when I hit the
>proxy, but it does not authenticate (I did create a passwd file using
>htpasswd) I thought is was configured correctly until I saw "Too few
>Basic Authenicator processes are running" when I do tail -f
>/var/log/messages while I am trying to log in. Is this a clear
>indication of a problem?
>
Hello David,

Increase this value in your squid.conf file:

authenticate_children

(for example: 5 or 10)

rgrds,
       Bart
Received on Fri Jul 11 2003 - 13:43:54 MDT

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