[squid-users] Re: Squid proxy question

Do as in transparent proxy setup, but instead of redirecting port 80
to Squid, redirect port 80 to a web server only responding with the
instructions..

Regards
Henrik

On Friday 18 April 2003 19.07, Tulio Llosa wrote:
> I know I should not be writting here but I need to ask you one more
> question and I have trouble with the squid maillinglist.
>
> I want to be able to redirect everybody that gets an ip address
> from me and opens their browser to the help page that displays what
> they need to do to configure their browsers to use a proxy. So
> when a user gets an ip from my network and opens their browser it
> shows my help page explaining how to setup their browsers to use a
> proxy. How can I do that?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
> > Basic HTTP authentication uses base64 encoded plain text. See
> > RFC2617 for a full description of the Basic HTTP authentication
> > scheme.
> >
> > For increased security on the wire you can consider using digest
> > authentication (Squid-2.5 required). However, this cannot
> > integrate with any existing password databases, and requires a
> > separate password file to be kept on the proxy.
> >
> > In future, please use the squid-users mailinglist for Squid usage
> > and configuration questions.
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik
> >
> > mån 2003-03-31 klockan 18.36 skrev Tulio Llosa:
> > > Hello-
> > > I have squid2.4.STABLE-4 installed and working. I am using pam
> > > for
> >
> > squid
> >
> > > authentication.
> > >
> > > authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth
> > > acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
> > >
> > > The whole thing is working very well. The only concern I have
> > > is security. I try to sniff the traffic and could not find the
> > > clear
> >
> > text
> >
> > > password that was used during authentication.
> > > How does squid do that. Does is it use a hash or cleartext?
> > > How secure is this setup? Is there anything I can do to make
> > > it more secure.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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