Re: Fwd: Re: [squid-users] NCSA & Cache Access Denied !

Sándor Zsolt wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [squid-users] NCSA & Cache Access Denied !
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:36:26 +0100
> From: Sándor Zsolt <sandor.zsolt@mail.vpop.hu>
> To: "Amit Khandekar/MUM/IN/STTL" <akhandekar@softcell.co.in>
>
> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 14:14, Amit Khandekar/MUM/IN/STTL wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Squid2.4 Stable6 on a Redhat linux 7.3
> >
> > have Configured NCSA as :
> >
> > authenticate_program /usr/bin/ncsa_auth /usr/etc/passwd
> > wnere passwd is my linux passwd file copy.
>
> /etc/passwd file doesn't contain users' passwords, try to use a copy of the
> /etc/shadow file. (What you need is actually the first two fields of the
> shadow file separated with a colon.)

Also NCSA Auth needs to have the passwords in crypt() hash format (13
characters), not MD5/SHA hash formats (longer hashes, usually including
a couple of $)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jan 09 2003 - 02:51:12 MST