Re: [squid-users] squid & md5

And if you are not refereing to Digest authentication but to the MD5
password hash method of Apache and many other web servers for Basic
authentication then the answer is simply

Yes it can be done, but there is no helper understanding this
password file format.

Adding the MD5 format to NCSA auth should be quite trivial. Just grab
the MD5 password verification routine from Apache and plug it into
the Squid NCSA auth sources.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 20.57, Robert Collins wrote:
> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Wessels" <wessels@squid-cache.org>
>
> > > I have to use MD5 because another server already uses it
> > > and I'd like to have the same users and passwords.
> > >
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
> >
> > You're referring to HTTP digest authentication.
> >
> > You'll need to use version 2.5 and use the
> > --enable-digest-auth-helpers=password option
> > I think.
>
> And the --enable-auth/--enable-authentication="digest" option (only
> basic is enabled by default).
>
> > I doubt there is much documentation other than the
> > source code you'll find in src/auth/digest
>
> Also available: The programmers Guide chapter on the authentication
> framework, the squid.conf entries that describe what options there
> are for tuning digest authentication, and the password.c source
> which describes the request format and the data file format.
>
> Rob

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