Re: [squid-users] Authentication

On Monday 11 August 2003 16.44, Adam Aube wrote:
> > if i only want the users on my lan (Windows 98 and 2000, IE 6.0)
> > to authenticate to a users list in the linux proxy, which is the
> > authentication program that i ve to use? I tried to do it with
> > NCSA, but it didnt worked (Is it supposed to??). I want my users
> > to have to log once they open the browser, am i clear?
>
> NCSA auth should work for what you want to do, but in your case
> Digest auth would probably be even better. The default squid.conf
> has good info on setting up the digest auth helper.

Except that you need 2.5.STABLE3 or later for good Digest support.

The basic authenticaiton scheme is always compiled into Squid unless
disabled, so this most likely is available in your Squid binary. If
you are lucky the ncsa_auth helper is also installed already.

Regards
Henrik

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