Re: Squid and Proxy Authentication

First of all you should upgrade to Squid 2.X, The 1.2 releases are beta
releases and not intended for production use. The latest officiall
production release (==considered stable) is currently Squid 2.1.PATCH1,
and the prior stable release is Squid 2.0.PATCH2. See the Squid home
page for version details.

Arjan De Vet's "ACL Proxy Authentication with External Programs" is
included by default in Squid 2 and in most 1.2beta releaes.
Authentication modules for NCSA style htpasswd files and SMB (Windows
domain) authentication is delivered with Squid. There are a number of
authenticator modules for other protocols written by other people using
Squid.

There are people who have implemented RADIUS authenticators for Squid.
Try searching the squid-users archives for RADIUS.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Surasak Sukhsawas wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I'm trying to set up my Linux box which has Squid 1.2 running on right now to
> support Proxy Authtication (or Proxy Authorization I'm not sure how to call.
> I don't know what is the difference of authentication and authorization).
> I'm running Squid 1.2 on my university firewall. I'm thinking about force all
> Netscape users to be authenticated to get connect to outside once after they
> have launched Netscape. I think Arjan De Vet's "ACL Proxy Authentication with
> External Programs" is what I need. From his Web page, Last updated: 1998/11/23
> 21:40h CET, I cound't find any external program that verify password with a
> server on network (not with the host that running Squid itself). I'm thinking
> about RADIUS. I hope you know RADIUS. I have a Digital Unix server which acts
> as Email server for all students/staff here. I also run RADIUSd on the server
> so that whey they dial in from home it'll authenticate them onto the Internet.
> So, I'd like to use radpwtst which comes with Merit RADIUSd in this case.
> I'd like to ask you if you ever tried or ever known of this. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Surasak.