RE: [squid-users] NTLM effect on access.log

Hi Tony,
I would be very much interested in having such documentation available,
especially regarding the helpers and their differences.
If you need some help, I do not mind to spend some time into it.

Best Regards,
./koen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Melia [mailto:Tony.Melia@downsmicro.com.au]
> Sent: 30 October 2001 00:11
> To: 'Squid Users'
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] NTLM effect on access.log
>
>
> Robert - can you explain what exactly the 2 denied are for,
> what they do?
> Also the suggestion of a configure optino to get rid of one
> of them will at
> least cut access.log size down by 33% so it would be good to see that.
>
> There seems to be a lack of 'easy to follow' documentation on
> NTLM, with a
> clear distinction between nocheck, fakeauth, NTLMSSP e.t.c.
>
> I am thinking of writing a howto document on setting up NTLM
> authentication
> from scratch, would people be interested in having this
> available, or is it
> just me who thinks the documentation is difficult to follow?
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 7:15pm
> To: Van Bossche Koen
> Cc: Squid Users
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] NTLM effect on access.log
>
>
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 20:04, Van Bossche Koen wrote:
> > Would you mind to explain, what this module exactly does?
> >
>
> 'NTLM', like 'digest' and 'basic' is a HTTP authentication scheme (see
> rfc 2616 and 2617).
>
> The ntlm authentication module in squid provides support for
> NTLM using
> an arbitrary backend helper process, supplied helpers include fakeauth
> (simply snarf the username) and ntlmssp (use NTLMSSP and the
> SMBSesseionSetupAndX call to communicate with an SMB server).
>
> Rob
>
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