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#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN UPDATE#
#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN PASSWORD#
#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN WINDOWS#

Now user is prompted for username and password.

http_access allow ncsa_users : Allow proxy access only if user is successfully authenticated.

acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED : The REQURIED term means that any authenticated user will match the ACL named ncsa_users.

auth_param basic casesensitive off : Specifies if usernames are case sensitive.

#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN PASSWORD#

auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours : Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated username:password pair is valid for – in other words how often the helper program is called for that user with password prompt.auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server : Part of the text the user will see when prompted their username and password.auth_param basic children 5 : The number of authenticator processes to spawn.auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwd : Specify squid password file and helper program location.usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth Step # 3: Configure nsca_auth for squid proxy authenticationĪppend (or modify) following configration directive:Īuth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwdĪuth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web serverĪlso find out your ACL section and append/modify If you are using RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Core or RPM based distro try: You can find out location using rpm (Redhat,CentOS,Fedora) or dpkg (Debian and Ubuntu) command: Usually nsca_auth is located at /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth. # chmod o+r /etc/squid/passwd Step # 2: Locate nsca_auth authentication helper

#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN UPDATE#

htpasswd is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames and password for basic authentication of squid users. Make sure squid is functioning without requiring authorization 🙂 Step # 1: Create a username/passwordįirst create a NCSA password file using htpasswd command. Tip: Before going further, test basic Squid functionality. I am going to assume that squid is installed and working fine. => NTLM, Negotiate and Digest authentication Configure an NCSA-style username and password authentication => getpwam: Uses the old-fashioned Unix password file.

#CRITICAL HELPER TOOK FOR SQUIDMAN WINDOWS#

=> SMB: Uses a SMB server like Windows NT or Samba. => PAM: Uses the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules scheme. => MSNT: Uses a Windows NT authentication domain. => LDAP: Uses the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol => NCSA: Uses an NCSA-style username and password file. Following are included by default in most squid and most Linux distros: You need to take help of authentication helpers. However squid is not equipped with password authentication.

If the header is present, Squid decodes it and extracts a username and password. If Squid gets a request and the http_access rule list gets to a proxy_auth ACL, Squid looks for the Authorization header. Browsers send the user’s authentication in the Authorization request header. You need to use proxy_auth ACLs to configure ncsa_auth module.