Re: New squid_ldap_auth: binddn with spaces

This is a limitation of Squid's configuration file parser.

To work around it you can wrap squid_ldap_auth in a small shell script
providing the correct arguments.

authenticate_program /path/to/your/shell/wraper.sh

--- wrapper.sh ---
#!/bin/sh
exec /path/to/squid_ldap_auth arguemnts....

It is on the todo to fix Squid's configuration parser to handle spaces
and other "odd" characters in a clean manner, but it is not there yet.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Frank Schmirler wrote:
> 
> I did a little bit of testing with the new squid_ldap_auth module.
> Everything worked fine so far. Definitly a big advance compared to the
> old version!
> 
> Just one thing I stumbled over: What do you do if the binddn contains
> space characters (like cn=Squid Cache,cn=...). I tried to quote it
> and tried a backslash-escape it. Both works fine on the command line
> but squid obviously doesn't know about these escapes when parsing the
> authenticator_program params. Are there any other escapes?
> 
> I also tried to replace the space character by %20 but this also didn't
> work. This might be a way to bypass the problem with the
> authenticator_program params.
> 
> Frank