Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.5 stable 1 and basic auth/ldap

Alex Sharaz wrote:
>
> Quoting Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>:
>
> > Nobody has written one for the FAQ yet, but there is some documentation
> > in the documentation to each helper (authentication and/or group
> > helper).
> >
> > If you plan on using groups I strongly advise to look into the group
> > helper of 2.5.STABLE1-2003XXXX snapshots, or 2.5.STABLE2 when released
> > (which is not far away now).

> if you're running on linux why not just use pam authentication and set up a
> squid specific pam.d file that uses ldap that's what I'm running here and it was
> very easy to set up. didn;t have to modify any squid related files at all

Using PAM is suitable if you want to have the proxy users fully
integrated as UNIX accounts on the proxy server. Most people running
proxy services and having external authentication databases such as NT
or LDAP do not actually want this, instead running the proxy as an
appliance where the accounts is only valid for the proxy service, not
the OS.

But yes, if your OS is already set up to use the correct user accounts
database then PAM will do the job fine.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 19:27:05 MST