[squid-users] External Authenticator help!

Hi Peeps,

I've to implement a solution here. Clients are issued usernames and
passwords which they will use to logon to squid. These usernames/passwords
should be valid for only half an hour. The password has to travel encrypted.
I'm running squid on linux.

To implement this, I have to write a authenticator either (maybe in perl) ..
say digest. Basic is easy but password is not encrypted over the wire. I'm
thinking of storing all the user/passwords in a dbm file and have the
authenticator read it. Time it every 15 min and keep updating the dbm file.

For this I've set the
auth_param digest credentialsttl 0.25 hours
auth_param digest program /etc/squid/test/test.pl
auth_param digest children 5
auth_param digest realm My External Authenticator
auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50

Is there any simple way to achieve the above? Also I've no experience
writing digest authenticator for squid. Can anyone give me pointers please?

Thanks
Prash
Received on Sat Apr 10 2004 - 04:02:58 MDT