Re: [squid-users] Auth problem(user trouble)

On Sunday 14 July 2002 09.06, maillist151@sohu.com wrote:
> Hi, pals!
>
> I am using Red Hat 7.2, Kernel 2.4.7-10 and Squid 2.4Stable4.
> I use NCSA auth module in Squid. I find that the users in the
> auth method is only users in Squid. I want to change the users
> as Linux system users. I also want to synchronize the passwd
> in /etc/passwd and /usr/local/squid/etc/passwd by chpasswd.
>
> Can Squid do this?

You can use the PAM module to authenticate to the system password
database..

Why do you want the users to be Linux system users? Most people do not
want this and consider it a security risk to allow users to log on to
the proxy server.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jul 14 2002 - 15:58:09 MDT