I would like to report something, but I honestly don't know just how to do it.
I'm a newb. There, it's on the table. I'm running Squid 2.5, I have working ACL's and http_access lines, and I did this by viewing the ACL docs on squid-cache.org. The squid docs on my own machine (Mandrake 9.1, docs are in /usr/share/doc/squid-2.5.stable1) refer to 2.5, but I have wholly been using the ACL instructions found at http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/x1455.html (and found under the "Using the NCSA authentication module" section). I did this because I was STRONGLY SUGGESTED by every single newsgroup/mail archive/user forum that previously answered that question. But the docs at the above listed website do not account for "auth_param" taglines, and in fact still validate the use of "authenticate_program" and "authenticate_children" as suggested by the squid.conf file that I'm presently running. Now if I am running Squid 2.5, and an old squid.conf file (that apparently works fine, unless I apply the "authenticate_program" tag line), and there's no docs to explain usage of the "auth_param" version, to whom do I turn to get this issue solved? Much appreciation to anyone who can get me out of this rut. If it's ANY consolation, I really am starting to like Linux, even if it still baffles me. Thanks a million, Eric Geater egeater at mscoinc dot com
