Re: [squid-users] Securing Squid with Cell Phone Proxying?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> lör 2006-03-25 klockan 16:32 -0500 skrev Scott Ehrlich:
>
> > I'd like to configure password authentication on squid to add security,
> > but I don't know what kind of encryption, if any, is actually used
> > between my phone and when the info gets to my squid box, and back to
> > the phone.
>
> Most likely none.
>
> > My phone only has an option for a password for authentication, so I
> > don't know if a username (possibly my phone number?) is also needed.
>
> Squid (per the HTTP authentication specifications) requires a username.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

Let's say my phone number was the username (would kind of make sense),
then what authentication mechanism for squid would be recommended - NCSA,
LDAP, something else? Granted, I could try all, but I thought I'd ask
first.

Thanks.

Scott
Received on Wed Mar 29 2006 - 05:23:05 MST