RE: [squid-users] Authentication Problems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hement Gopal [mailto:hementg@cns.wits.ac.za]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:06 AM
> To: squid
> Subject: [squid-users] Authentication Problems
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I have two proxy servers, both running the same OS and Squid
>
> Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE5
> Linux athena.wits.ac.za 2.4.20-8smp
> Linux version 2.4.20-8smp (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
> version 3.2.2
> 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003
>
>
> On server 1, user authetication seems to be giving problems. A small
> percentage of users complain that their username and password
> combinations do not work. If I test from Netscape and IE with their
> user/pass combos I also have issues. When I test on the server 1 itself
> using the ncsa-auth command, I get an OK so I know the problem is not
> with my password file.
>
> Comparing password files on the two servers also confirms that there are
> no probelms. If I change my browser to point to server 2, authetication
> works fine....so I'm pretty sure problem is related to the server 1 only.
>
> I also noticed that when I do a squid -k reconfig on server 1, the
> problem disappears.
>
> Any ideas folks?
>
> Rgds,
> Hement Gopal

If I'm reading this right, you are saying that when you initially start
squid on server 1, it has problems with some user's authentication, but
after you run a reconfig everything works just fine. If this is the case, I
would venture a guess that you might have two different squid.conf files.
One is read on startup (specified by /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid) and one is read
when you run the squid -k reconfig (specified by how you compiled squid).

But this is just a guess, based on interpretation...

Chris
Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 11:17:59 MST