Re: [squid-users] Trying to get NCSA working

A good test is to run it by hand before trying it from Squid.

From the command line, start smb_auth with it's required arguments

then type a username and password separated by a space and press enter.
If everything works the helper responds with OK

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Greg Gerritsen wrote:
>
> How can I tell if smb_auth is ready to used with Squid. I would like to
> verify that it is enabled. I went through it's build process. yet I am still
> having problem and I'm trying to eliminate areas where the problem could
> lie.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hno@hem.passagen.se [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]On Behalf Of
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:41 PM
> To: Greg Gerritsen
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Trying to get NCSA working
>
> This is the easiest way to compile any of the auth modules shipped with
> Squid. It does not actually change how Squid is built, it only sets up
> the makefiles and so on for building the selected auth helpers
> automatically.
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Hacker
>
> Greg Gerritsen wrote:
> >
> > Does this also count for the smb_auth. Do I need to configure something
> into
> > the Squid module?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hno@hem.passagen.se [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]On Behalf Of
> > Henrik Nordstrom
> > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 9:44 AM
> > To: Winston Gutkowski
> > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Trying to get NCSA working
> >
> > Normally you tell to configure what authentication helpers you want to
> > have built. This will generate the needed Makefile's from their
> > Makefile.in and include them in a standard Squid build.
> >
> > >From a Squid-2.4 source tree:
> >
> > ./configure --enable-auth-modules="NCSA"
> > make
> > cd auth_modules/NCSA
> > cp ncsa_auth /usr/libexec/squid/
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik Nordström
> > Squid Hacker
> >
> > Winston Gutkowski wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have installed the rpm version of squid 2.3 stable5 (and source) on
> > RedHat
> > > 6.2 and it's working fine. I now need to get NCSA (or other authorizer)
> > > compiled so that I can test user/password authentication. The provided
> > > Makefile.in has a load of variables in it with no suggestion as to what
> > > values should be substituted (It merely says "edit as appropriate"). Am
> I
> > > missing a step here? Alternatively, is there anywhere I can get a copy
> of
> > > the ncsa_auth executable for RH 6.2?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Winston
> > >
> > >
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Received on Tue Oct 16 2001 - 01:22:47 MDT