Re: [squid-users] Advices for a squid cluster with kerberos auth

Emmanuel Lesouef wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently satisfied with my round-robin DNS enabled "cluster" of
> two Squid with ntlm authentication.
>
> But, with th appearance of Windows 7 and Windows 2008, I see by
> searching for documentation on the web that I need to use Kerberos
> Authentication if I would like Internet Explorer 8 from 2008 or 7 to
> work.
>
> Do you have any advices for achieving this setup ? What clustering
> mechanism do you use. Does the kerberos part of the install need to be
> customized to support being put in cluster mode (which needs to be
> defined) ?
>
> Thanks for your helps and docs.
>
> PS : Testing it will be easy so I thinks I'll enable Debian Backports
> repository in order to have 2.7STABLE9.
>

Without havign used either, I expect if your clustering setup works with
NTLM it will work equally well or better for Kerberos.

The two protocols are very much similar, with Kerberos doing away with
one of the handshake HTTP reject messages.

Amos

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Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.3