[colug-432] squid auth - local or other

[Jon Miller]

Does the example Wiki page not give you what you're looking for?
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Authentication

-- Jon Miller

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Richard Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> gang --
>
> One of my teammates needed a web proxy for some testing he is doing.
> I set him up with Squid.
> Works.
>
> So now he needs to test when the proxy requires credentials.  Both of
> us have been looking at it, but not yet figured it out, so I thought I
> should ask.  Any of you been through this before?
>
> MY preference would be to let the proxy validate users against the
> POSIX credentials.  So do we need a PAM scheme for that?  My teammate
> noticed some recommendation about using 'htpasswd', for which I
> suppose I'll need to install Apache.  (The server he is using does not
> have a web server, just the proxy.)  I can do that.  What do y'all
> think?  Doesn't really matter which auth scheme we use (which is part
> of the problem: indecision!) just as long as he can cook up
> username/password pairs that the proxy will demand.
>
> Thanks for your sage advice.
>
> -- Rick;   <><
>
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