Re: [squid-users] authication retries

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:09 +1200

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:28:28 -0500 (CDT), Al - Image Hosting Services
<azick_at_zickswebventures.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After thinking about it, I decided that if a person lost their password,
> that I should have away for them to retrieve it without needing me, so I
> added an acl to unblock a site so it would work without authentication.
> Where I have a problem is that it looks like you can try wrong usernames
> and passwords all day. Could someone tell me how many times a user will
be
> able to type in their username and password before squid will give the
> ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED page? Or if there is even a way to change this
> number. I would like people to see the error page after maybe 10 tries.
If
> this can't be changed, then I will need to find another way to deal with
> this issue.
>
> Best Regards,
> Al

Zero times. It is displayed immediately when auth credentials are missing
or bad.

The problem you have now is that the error page is hidden by the browsers
and converted into that popup everyone is so familiar with.

Amos
Received on Mon Jun 15 2009 - 02:28:15 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Jun 16 2009 - 12:00:03 MDT