Re: [squid-users] 2 Questions - Authentication Caching and Redirectors

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Dale Harrod wrote:

> OS: Red Hat 7.2
> Squid: 2.4 Stable 4
>
> Scenario 1: Squid configured to use NCSA auth with authenticate_TTL 1 hour
> and authenticate_ip_ttl 300 seconds
> Problem 1: Squid requests authentication for each browser the user spawns.
> Question 1: Can Squid be configured to remember authentication credentials
> for a given user so the user is not prompted for authentication every time
> they spawn a new browser?

How would you index this user credential store? You can't do it by
username since that's not present in the information provided by the
spawned browser. You'd have to do it by IP and then you run into problems
when many users come from the same IP (through NAT, multi-user system).
The real cause of the problem is the browser not passing user credentials
to each spawned child.

Colin
Received on Mon Mar 04 2002 - 15:41:04 MST