Re: [squid-users] Authentication Problems

From: Hement Gopal <hementg@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:52:53 +0200

Hement Gopal wrote:

> Hi
>
> I start squid as a process in my rc.local file
>
> /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid
>
> Rgds,
> Hement
>
>
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Hement Gopal [mailto:hementg@cns.wits.ac.za]
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:06 AM
>>>To: squid
>>>Subject: [squid-users] Authentication Problems
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi all
>>>
>>>I have two proxy servers, both running the same OS and Squid
>>>
>>>Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE5
>>>Linux athena.wits.ac.za 2.4.20-8smp
>>>Linux version 2.4.20-8smp (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
>>>version 3.2.2
>>>20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003
>>>
>>>
>>>On server 1, user authetication seems to be giving problems. A small
>>>percentage of users complain that their username and password
>>>combinations do not work. If I test from Netscape and IE with their
>>>user/pass combos I also have issues. When I test on the server 1 itself using the ncsa-auth command, I get an OK so I know the problem is not
>>>with my password file.
>>>
>>>Comparing password files on the two servers also confirms that there are
>>>no probelms. If I change my browser to point to server 2, authetication
>>>works fine....so I'm pretty sure problem is related to the server 1 only.
>>>
>>>I also noticed that when I do a squid -k reconfig on server 1, the
>>>problem disappears.
>>>
>>>Any ideas folks?
>>>
>>>Rgds,
>>>Hement Gopal
>>>
>>
>>If I'm reading this right, you are saying that when you initially start
>>squid on server 1, it has problems with some user's authentication, but
>>after you run a reconfig everything works just fine. If this is the case, I
>>would venture a guess that you might have two different squid.conf files.
>>One is read on startup (specified by /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid) and one is read
>>when you run the squid -k reconfig (specified by how you compiled squid).
>>
>>But this is just a guess, based on interpretation...
>>
>>Chris
>>
>
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