On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07.03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking to have Squid 2.5 authenticate connection requests > against a Novell eDirectory 8.62 server. A neat solution from my > point of view is to configure Squid to use the supplied LDAP > helper, across SSL.
Which the supplied helper does just fine, and several people use this for Novell NDS integration via LDAP and I see no reason why it should nor work with eDirectory as well. > Is there any reason why I should additionally look at PAM > authentication? Are there any potential benefits over what I have > described above? None I can see.. only complications.. PAM is mostly useful if you have the UNIX server already integrated into some authentication system and you want to use the same for Squid authentication. i.e. if the UNIX server where you run Squid is already fully integrated into your eDirectory domain, allowing login/pop3/imap etc using accounts from eDirectory then using the same setup via PAM for Squid may be appropriate. However, even then it is often preferable to use the native Squid helpers in favor of the PAM based helper if the native helpers can do the job. Regards Henrik
