Re: [squid-users] Switching from digest auth to basic auth?

it shouldn't be hard to write up some code to authenticate basic users
off a cleartext password file.

After all, the basic auth password is transmitted in cleartext; you
just need to base 64 decode things..

adrian

2008/7/30 Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt_at_charite.de>:
> * Karandeep Malik <karandeepmalik_at_gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt
>> <Ralf.Hildebrandt_at_charite.de> wrote:
>> > Right now I'm using:
>> >
>> > auth_param digest program /usr/lib/squid/digest_pw_auth /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest
>> >
>> > with /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest containing:
>> >
>> > user:password
>> >
>> > Can I, in a simple fashion, switch to auth_param basic with the same
>> > (or easily modified) /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest file?
>> >
>> > How?
>
>> Although I am not pretty sure but I think that may work if you specify
>> ncsa_auth as authentication for basic and use the same realm that you
>> had specified while creating the wlan-proxyauth.digest file.
>
> No, doesn't work at all.
>
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Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 17:09:00 MDT