Re: Authenticate against multiple password files

Simon Bryan wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have Squid authenticating nicely against a password file, but it would be
> very convenient if it could actually work against a number of files, ie check
> them all until a match is found (or not found. This would make it easy for us
> to add / remove whole year groups of users (we are a school). For instance I
> still have all of last years school leavers in the file. Or is there another way to
> achieve what I wnat to do?

It is possible. I posted a program to do so some week ago.

However, my recommendation is instead to concat the files together
whenever they are changed.

cat passwd1.txt passwd2.txt passwd3.txt ... > passwd.txt

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker