RE: [squid-users] Problem with password authentication in 2.5

 
>
> I'm trying to use password authentication with 2.5 on a
> Debian unstable box.

 What do you mean by 'unstable' ?

> Squid itself is working fine, and I've used password
> authentication on 2.4
> successfully so I do have an idea of the mechanism. I don't
> have any very
> sophisticated requirements, and in fact my needs should be
> met by the samples
> in the sample config file. At the moment, in my config file
> for password
> authentication I just have these 6 lines different from my
> regular config:
>
>
> auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd
> auth_param basic children 5
> auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
> acl external_users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> http_access allow external_users
>
> The first 4 lines above are simply obtained by uncommenting
> the lines from the
> sample config (the first line also had to be completed) - the
> last two are
> quite simple. If I include the lines above in my squid.conf,
> no clients can
> connect to squid. Telnetting to the port simply gets
> connection refused.
>
> The same applies if I don't even have the acl defined or used
> i.e. if I simply
> have the 4 lines above beginning auth_param in the config
> file - no squid for
> anybody.
>
> So, for the moment I have removed the offending lines. Can
> someone please
> suggest where I'm going wrong?
 
 In case of the 'problem situation' what's reported in cache.log when
 squid starts ?

 M.
Received on Fri Mar 19 2004 - 05:57:59 MST