RE: [squid-users] Browser fails to prompt for authentication

I'm guessing that the authenticate_program has been changed to
auth_param or vice versa. My version returns a parse error when using
authenticate_program and the default conf file uses the auth_param
syntax.

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 11:09, Chris Berry wrote:
> > > From: Fred Evans [mailto:fred@querymagic.com]
> > > I made sure that the password file is owned by the user squid runs as
> > > and is readable by that user.
> > >
> > > Prior to this installation of squid there was no transparent proxy. The
> > > browsers were not configured for proxying at all until I configured them
> > > to work with this install of squid. Further, I tested on IE and Mozilla
> > > for windows and Mozilla for linux.
> > >
> > > The config is as follows:
> > >
> > > auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd
> > > auth_param basic children 5
> > > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
> > >
> > > acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> > > http_access allow all users
>
> Well, I haven't tried using the auth_param entries so I'm not sure what
> that's about, but on my system when you use proxy_auth you also have to use
> authenticate_program check here:
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-23.html
>
> (look at the last line in 23.1)
>
> Have you tried squid -k parse?
>
> You may wish to change your http_access line to:
>
> http_access allow users
>
> Since the all part will always be true.
>
> I would also put this right afterwards:
>
> http_access deny all
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma@hotmail.com
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
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Received on Thu Jun 19 2003 - 14:32:39 MDT