Re: [squid-users] PAM configuration

On Saturday 01 December 2001 07:05 pm, you wrote:
> Khashayar Assa wrote:
> > On Friday 30 November 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote:
> > > By using the PAM authentication helper, shipped with Squid.
> > >
> > > Squid configuration for PAM is like any other proxy authentication.
> > > Nothing special only because the password is verified against PAM.
> >
> > I make and install PAM module and set the following line in
> > 'squid.conf': authenticate_program
> > /usr/local/squid/libexec/squid/pam_auth /etc/passwd
>
> pam_auth does not take any arguments. Any configuration is done in the
> PAM configuration files.
>
> > I create '/etc/pam.d/squid' like this:
> > auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> > account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> > But it doesn't work, what is wrong? I use Red Hat Linux 7.2.
>
> See the PAM Administrators Guide on how to configure PAM services (on
> RedHat 7.2 this can be found in /usr/share/doc/pam-<version>/ in PS,
> HTML and TXT formats (pam.ps, pam.html, pam.txt).
>

        I read the guide but I could not find any thing special, I will be glad if
        someone send me a working configuration file.

> Note: If your system is using shadow passwords (RedHat 7.2 does by
> default) then only processes running as root will be able to verify
> passwords. This means that in such configurations Squid pam_auth needs
> to be set user id root.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Tue Dec 04 2001 - 08:28:58 MST