Re: [squid-users] 3 questions about using squid as areverse proxy

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:14:55 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Culley Harrelson wrote:

> using the squid authenticate_* directives I presume.

auth_param more specifially (authenticate_* is Squid-2.4 and earlier
only..)

> Is it possible
> to use authenticate_program to point to a custom script that does
> database lookups? I am dealing with 50K users.

Yes, and a number of such connectors/helpers are shipped with Squid for
LDAP, NT Domain, PAM, SASL etc.

If you have a database of accounts then it is trivial to write a plugin to
Squid to access this database.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 15:15:05 MDT

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