David Zverina wrote:
> The MS does it through combination of passing around access tokens and
> caching the password (in hashes). This is done at SMB level. The reason why
> MS Proxy can work in that way is because it requires you to install the
> client program on each PC and then use RPC over SMB to access the proxy
> server. I would rate your chances as being very marginally higher than 0% of
> ever being able to reproduce such setup directly. You may be able to
> syncronize a linux server running squid with windows NT and then write a
> custom authentication module. I am inclined to put in the too hard basket
> though.
Au contraire. I had it working reasonably well on one site using
the PAM authentication module for squid, and PAM_SMB.
The user is still prompted for a password when they connect to
squid, but they use the same user name and password as their NT
domain account.
It wasn't that hard to set up.
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