Re: [squid-users] ldap_auth

On fre, 2008-05-30 at 09:50 -0400, Chris Riggins wrote:
> No, it is possible to use digest authentication to avoid
> cleartext passwords. The squid wiki link Henrik sent out is a good
> start, but it leaves out one critical piece: how to encode the
> passwords! In either LDAP or a flat-file, I found only one site
> online with instructions, and they were 100% wrong.

Plain-text or H(A1) from RFC2617, depending on how you use the helper..

H(A1) is MD5("user:realm:password"), printed in normal HEX encoding.

Regards
Henrik